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How about an electric rail gun in a tunnel up a mountain? Has Musk ever said that's what the Boring company is going to do some day?
by perl4ever 5y ago
How about an electric rail gun in a tunnel up a mountain?
Has Musk ever said that's what the Boring company is going to do some day?
- panick21_ 5y agoA mass driver makes sense on the moon or Mars potentially, unlikely to make sense on earth. Even if you assume a sufficient good mass driver, you still need a rocket upper stage. And those mass drivers would always target the same orbit. You really have to construct a very specific scenario to beat reusable rockets anytime soon. On the moon if you want to mass deliver ice blocks to a specific fuel station it makes some sense.