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Giant catapult defies gravity by launching satellites into orbit without the need of rocket fuel
Brighter Side News ^
| 10/21/2024
| Joseph Shavit
Posted on 10/21/2024 11:52:29 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina
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To: TexasKamaAina
And when it’s not be used to launch satellites, it could be a killer amusement park ride, right between the Thunderbolt and the Round-Up.
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posted on
10/21/2024 1:01:20 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
To: TexasKamaAina
--- "significant funding and has collaborated with major organizations like NASA, Airbus, and Cornell University...."
Translation: "Looking for venture capital now." Cornell and Airbus are tapped pit, and NASA's DEI will require those guys beocme gals in 1, 2,3....
To: discostu
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posted on
10/21/2024 1:14:49 PM PDT
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
To: citizen
Won’t the atmoshperic friction from traveling 17,500 mph, or faster, burn up the payload going up, they same as it does coming down?
I think the difference is that a spaceship coming down presents a profile specifically designed to maximize air resistance, whereas this projectile is shaped and designed to minimize air resistance.
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posted on
10/21/2024 1:25:17 PM PDT
by
scouter
(As for me and my household... We will serve the LORD.)
To: alexander_busek
You need to read a bit more on this.
There is considerable centrifugal force but it’s not like going from 0 to Mach as with a bullet.
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posted on
10/21/2024 1:34:16 PM PDT
by
TheThirdRuffian
(Orange is the new brown in)
To: TexasKamaAina
And he just needs $43 billion dollars in government handouts to make it work.
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posted on
10/21/2024 1:35:04 PM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
To: scouter
Escape velocity is slightly under 25,000 MPH.
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posted on
10/21/2024 1:35:32 PM PDT
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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posted on
10/21/2024 1:36:50 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
What happened to the carbon fiber space elevator cable we all paid for last decade to solve this problem? Does anyone have recall past the last day’s news cycle?
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posted on
10/21/2024 1:38:12 PM PDT
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
To: TexasKamaAina
This is somebody’s pipe dream and scam. It doesn’t work, it never worked and it can’t work.
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posted on
10/21/2024 1:39:45 PM PDT
by
Nik Naym
(It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder. )
To: Organic Panic
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posted on
10/21/2024 1:40:18 PM PDT
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
To: Right Brother
It’s spun up gradually - then released through the output pipe seen in the picture. At least, that’s what a video earlier this year said.
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posted on
10/21/2024 1:40:32 PM PDT
by
curious7
To: TheThirdRuffian
There’s a membrane (apparently a really tough one) over the exit, so that 99% of the air can be pumped out before the spinning starts.
This is the part where it becomes appropriate to say, “just shut and up and build a rocket”. :^)
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posted on
10/21/2024 1:59:35 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: CitizenUSA
How could the rate of necessary acceleration conceivably be slow ?
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posted on
10/21/2024 2:00:24 PM PDT
by
A strike
(death to taggers)
To: blackdog
Gerald Bull’s project on Barbados about 60 years ago explored using a big gun to shoot satellites into orbit. He never accomplished that, but he set the altitude record for projectiles fired from a gun. That stood for over 20 years, when it was exceeded by a gas gun project by, hmm, maybe LLL.
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posted on
10/21/2024 2:01:18 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: SunkenCiv
Gerald Bull’s project on Barbados about 60 years ago explored using a big gun to shoot satellites into orbit. He never accomplished that, but he set the altitude record for projectiles fired from a gun. Wasn't he assassinated by the derpstate?
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posted on
10/21/2024 2:03:56 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
To: TexasKamaAina
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posted on
10/21/2024 2:19:52 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: blackdog
As long as your satellite isn’t fragile, which all satellites are. I was thinking the same thing. You can toss it up there but your tech is going to be spam in a can. But I like seeing people thinking out of the box.
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posted on
10/21/2024 2:23:23 PM PDT
by
usurper
(AI was born with a birth defect.)
To: Sirius Lee
No, he was warned to not build Saddam Hussein's supergun, ignored the warning, and apparently the Israelis popped him with one to the back of his head.
Bull wrote a limited edition book about the Paris Kanonen of WWI, also figured out how Krupp had boosted the range of artillery and added his own ideas.
He'd previously got in hot water for doing business with old South Africa, but his best customer was Saddam, who wanted those 40 mile range field artillery pieces. Bull enhanced certain existing howitzers, but the real money was in his custom ammo.
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posted on
10/21/2024 2:40:47 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: hanamizu
Perhaps a stupid question, would it work as an earth-based variation of ‘Rods from God’? That's a great fn question
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posted on
10/21/2024 2:43:16 PM PDT
by
onona
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