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Re:The Slingatron: Building a Railroad to Space by m3mnoch on Monday July 29, 2013 @08:55PM (#6124829)
"rapidly heading towards the limits of material strength"

indeed. tho, we should also note that we are looking at a weakest link thing. can that one bolt sustain that much pressure? or maybe that one weld? or any of the concrete parts that attach to the earth itself?

shrug

m3mnoch.

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Re:The Slingatron: Building a Railroad to Space by Tloewald on Monday July 29, 2013 @11:20PM (#6125232)
The first thing that struck me was that curved ramp at the end of the track. So, that curve is going to deflect masses going at 7km/s. Really. (And this thing is 100m-1km in diameter and built to the tolerances of a watch...)
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