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Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
How hard would it be to kinetically launch mass to escape velocity without it burning up in the atmosphere? If we built an electromagnetic launch rail atop Mount Everest on 1 kilometer-tall pylons to begin with as thin of an atmosphere as possible, how long would it need to be to hypothetically work? We need cheaper and more sustainable ways to enter space. Would floating a launch rail at, say, 10km altitude with balloons and tethering it with a very long power cable—then floating payload up to it—be more feasible?
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1frog9
@1frog9
i've always had this idea about launching our trash into the sun
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depatchedmode
@depatchedmode
Something bothers me about ejecting material from a (mostly) closed ecosystem.
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Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
Everything we know is a transitory state of the sun’s atomic ecosystem. It came from that and will return there with a 10 billion year interval. We only have 750 million more years or so of Earth habitability before the sun gets too hot, so we’d better improve our Earth-ecosystem ejection capability 😀
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