• RNAi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Space elevator in a vacuum tube? That's even sillier

    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      2 years ago

      Not like that, you build a ~100 mile long vactrain into the side of a mountain, accelerate ~10 g for ~10 minutes, and then you only need a little delta v to circularize the orbit.

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Aaah, a mountain-sized space yeeter