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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by MongooseMan on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:24PM (#31032052)
Sorry to put a dampener on things, but Thunderf00t has already done two debunking videos on SpinLaunch. He's rarely wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ziGI0i9VbE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibSJ_yy96iE

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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by LeifCarrotson on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:57PM (#31032464)
Scott Manley also put out a video on Spinlaunch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAczd3mt3X0

He...encourages caution. It's one thing to call a technology "debunked", another to say it's very difficult or that it has a low probability of success.

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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by MongooseMan on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:38AM (#31038194)
It's not impossible, but there's no reason to believe that the company is able to build it.

The founder has little demonstrable understanding of physics, and their demonstration video was misleading.

If SpinLaunch's idea was practical, it would've been in use for decades already. The company seems unaware of this... for now.

I look forward to watching SpinLaunch's progress.

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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by dntrkv on Thursday April 14, 2022 @04:42PM (#31033007)
> He's rarely wrong

About what? Most of his recent content is clickbait debunking videos about stupid ideas that no serious person has ever taken seriously.

"Solar Roadways Debunked" Yeah no fucking shit.

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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by nix23 on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:02AM (#31038376)
And the whole Elon stuff? Compared to that even solar roadways are more realistic.

And here we are talking about spinlaunch.....

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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by MongooseMan on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:20AM (#31038082)
That's true, but he has interesting insight into more seemingly realistic concepts like SpinLaunch.
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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by mlindner on Friday April 15, 2022 @02:24AM (#31037130)
Thunderf00t is not a credible source, even if he's right sometimes, it's in the "a broken clock is right twice a day" sense. So these aren't good videos.
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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by MongooseMan on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:17AM (#31038070)
He is a scientist with published papers, and he seems to have a decent understanding of physics.

Obviously scientists are not perfect, but you seem to imply that most of his videos are incorrect. I can't see any evidence to support that, but I'm happy to be contradicted.

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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by mlindner on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:25AM (#31038928)
> He is a scientist with published papers, and he seems to have a decent understanding of physics.

There are many mentally deranged people who have published papers and are "scientists".

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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by MongooseMan on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:14PM (#31045236)
> There are many mentally deranged people who have published papers and are "scientists".

That's true, but it could be interpreted as a distraction from the fact that you haven't provided any evidence to support your claim.

In my experience, few mentally deranged people have a good understanding of physics. Even fewer have published in 'Nature'.

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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by tekno45 on Thursday April 14, 2022 @04:32PM (#31032906)
Looks like one comfy armchair.
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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by MongooseMan on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:13AM (#31038039)
I do have a degree in physics, if that helps.
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