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What about mass stream technology? Why everyone forgets mass stream technology? https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47e1bb1fc898c https://www.orionsarm.com/eg
by m4rtink 3y ago
What about mass stream technology? Why everyone forgets mass stream technology?
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47e1bb1fc898c https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47e1bb1fc898c
"Using accelerated streams of projectiles or particles to either transfer momentum or support a large structure."
This is basically active super strong matter that requires uninterrupted continuous control, power supply and real time adjustments - or bad things happen very very quickly. What is there not to love?! ;-)
- SideburnsOfDoom 3y agoFiring a machinegun up at something, from a planetary surface seems like a possible * way to to keep it from falling down (i.e. to push against gravity) but not so simply as a way to keep it from flying apart - the stresses on a ring rotating fast in zero G space, are Centrifugal. You would have to shoot inwards at it, from nowhere. * Possible, not necessarily practical.
- m4rtink 3y agoGood point - this mass stream technology is crazy enough in normal cases (eq. space fountains, launch loops) & as you note almost impossible for a ring. :)