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Rockets are not the only way off a planet. If humans had spent space program amounts of resources on railguns or another method of locomotion there's real possi
by HeatrayEnjoyer 3y ago
Rockets are not the only way off a planet. If humans had spent space program amounts of resources on railguns or another method of locomotion there's real possibility it would have been successful too.
Rockets are most convenient for Earth's variables so engineers optimized for them.
- choilive 3y agoRailguns also become much harder in a larger gravity well. Bigger planets generally have thicker atmospheres as well. Your payload will end up disintegrating at the velocities required even on Earth.
- avar 3y agoThe Earth is larger than Venus, but its atmosphere is 90 times denser than ours. There's a lot more variables that just gravity.
- contravariant 3y agoBalloon stage followed by a rail gun might work.
- the__alchemist 3y agoVacuum inside the tube?