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I think a launch loop would still work, even on a Super Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop Or potentia
by m4rtink 6mo ago
I think a launch loop would still work, even on a Super Earth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop
Or potentially beamed power for launch, so you don't kug a power source. But in any case, indeed much harder. :)
- api 6mo agoYeah. I’m a little obsessed with Orion though. The fact that the math works on that lunacy. The good old devil’s pogo stick. If you could make pure fusion bombs it would be maybe politically viable, especially if you also use superconducting magnets to make it less just brute force. You’d still induce a little radioactivity from neutrons but it would be short lived and not even close to fissile fallout bad. To see that thing launch. From somewhere very remote though, probably Antarctica. And from many miles away, and probably with welders glass. But damn. That would be epic.