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This Company Built a Gigantic Centrifuge to Fling Rockets Into Space
Popular Mechanics ^
| 01/30/2020
| Courtney Linder
Posted on 01/30/2020 6:09:21 PM PST by aimhigh
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:09:21 PM PST
by
aimhigh
To: aimhigh
But it would tear the rocket apart. Might work on the moon though.
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:12:09 PM PST
by
Brilliant
To: aimhigh
I like the rubber band idea. Really big rubber bands. Pew!
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:12:17 PM PST
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: aimhigh
As long as your payload is a steel ball it might work, but 10 kilo G force would crush a golf ball.
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:13:13 PM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: aimhigh
The ultimate hammer throw.
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:14:12 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: aimhigh
I’d prefer a trebuchet myself.
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:14:44 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
To: aimhigh
Wasn’t the video game mass effect based off something similar to this?
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:14:56 PM PST
by
SWAMP-C1PHER
(HOMO, OECONOMIA, ET CIVITAS.)
To: aimhigh
Someone better invent “inertial dampeners” first.
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:15:37 PM PST
by
calenel
(The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Progressive Mafia.)
To: Brilliant
Its former name was Acme. Primary client was one Wile E. Coyote.
To: aimhigh
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:17:38 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: aimhigh
I saw something like this in a Road Runner cartoon once.
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:19:28 PM PST
by
llevrok
(I'm a Boomer rube, deplorable and proud!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:19:40 PM PST
by
Rennes Templar
(Heaven has a wall and gates. Hell has open borders.)
To: aimhigh
I’d like to see it tested on democrats (or at least house managers) to see if it works...
To: aimhigh
The training for the crew will be tough.
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:20:04 PM PST
by
ryderann
To: aimhigh
LOL. What is that, 200-300 Gs? Yeah, that’s the ticket....
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:21:12 PM PST
by
Bryan24
(When in doubt, move to the right..........)
To: ryderann
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:22:03 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: aimhigh
Can satellite electronics handle that kind of pressure?
Better keep birds out of the spin zone.
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:22:03 PM PST
by
TChad
(The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
To: aimhigh
Some offended Martian may find a way to throw those rocks right back at us. “Did you drop something on Jupiter?”
To: aimhigh
Instead of SpinLaunch
They should have named it FoolandHisMoney.
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:26:06 PM PST
by
11Bush
To: TChad
Wondering how a rocket will go through an oval at extremely high speed. Does the rocket bend?
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posted on
01/30/2020 6:26:27 PM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Operation Chaos is in play. Repeat, Operation Chaos is in play)
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