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Re:Science upside for Starship by trevyn on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @12:08AM (#29314798)
>It is possible that there is a cap in how much stuff people want to put into space.

I’m still trying to figure out if Earth is the slave planet or Mars is the slave planet, and how that’s gonna play out.

Either way, lots of stuff to move.

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Re:Science upside for Starship by consumer451 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:20PM (#29322036)
> Either way, lots of stuff to move.

Have you heard about SpinLaunch? SpinLaunch really came out of left field for me as a serious contender.

Really curious how they plan to re-balance a multi-ton spinning mass when half the mass gets ejected at 10,000 RPM.

That sounds nuts but the scale test went OK, so I guess they have a handle on that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinLaunch

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