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To: aimhigh

As long as your payload is a steel ball it might work, but 10 kilo G force would crush a golf ball.


4 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.)
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To: American in Israel

By my calculations, a centrifuge the size of a football field moving at 5000mph would produce 5,576Gs.

There’s something in the description that can’t be right. Is there any construction material that could withstand that? It would have 233 rotations per minute. Four rotations per second. Something just can’t be translated right here.


52 posted on 01/30/2020 7:55:58 PM PST by Bogey78O (So far so good.)
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To: American in Israel

While the centrifuge is up-and-running, why not share the cost among 200 “hardened” satellites, and fling them into space inititiated from an ocean-facing launch ramp?


66 posted on 01/31/2020 2:17:49 AM PST by Does so (...Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election...)
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