Re:Water Found Deep Inside the Moon
by adrianN on Friday August 25, 2017 @04:20PM
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How about you, just as an exercise, compare the difference in velocities of the mass driver and the incoming space craft with the difference of velocities of a capsule docking at the ISS.
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Re:Water Found Deep Inside the Moon
by stcredzero on Friday August 25, 2017 @05:33PM
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Ok, you clearly don't understand enough to understand what you don't understand. You don't have to make the velocities or the positions of specific points on the mass driver and the orbit coincide. All you have to do is to make an orbital path coincide with a great circle pathway on the moon. We can already guide spacecraft with this degree of precision. Anyone suggesting that you'd need to make specific point on the mass driver coincide in position and velocity -- that you'd need to brake first -- just doesn't understand what the discussed device is for in the first place. Basically you've just "proved" that you can't land airplanes, because they come in too fast to brake the same 1/10th of a second they touch the tarmac. o_O
If you can't explain my analogy, then I'm just going to conclude you're trolling based on my previously stated disdain for DK syndrome.