From the 1983 album Murmur. Track 7.R.E.M. - Catapult (Studio Version) | 3:55
T.J.R. | 267 subscribers | 79,811 views | February 25, 2012
Posted on 10/21/2024 11:52:29 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina
This technology aims to revolutionize the way satellites are sent into space, using a giant rotating arm to fling satellites into low Earth orbit.
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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.
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....
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.
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.
And he just needs $43 billion dollars in government handouts to make it work.
Escape velocity is slightly under 25,000 MPH.
From the 1983 album Murmur. Track 7.R.E.M. - Catapult (Studio Version) | 3:55
T.J.R. | 267 subscribers | 79,811 views | February 25, 2012
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?
This is somebody’s pipe dream and scam. It doesn’t work, it never worked and it can’t work.
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.
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”. :^)
How could the rate of necessary acceleration conceivably be slow ?
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.
Wasn't he assassinated by the derpstate?
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.
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.
That's a great fn question
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