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Space pier, an alternative to the space elevator.
- helveticaman 18y agoAll this makes me wonder, why not just use nuclear spaceships? Aren't they much more viable?
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoInteresting. I played around with the math a few months ago. Looks like you could do the same thing from the ground, with minimal rocket assist. You'd just get the payload package hotter than a fireball on the way out -- sort of a reverse re-entry. But a ground-based, low atmosphere mass driver could easily be built without huge diamond towers. A cannister/payload system could be constructed which would include a final rocket assist into orbit.