Re:The Slingatron: Building a Railroad to Space
by bradleyland on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @10:01AM
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It doesn't matter how many you send. If your scenario relies on the fact that the last in line must be the fastest of the group, it's always going to run in to the object directly in front of it.
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Re:The Slingatron: Building a Railroad to Space
by scotty79 on Friday August 02, 2013 @06:57PM
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I was imagining air behaving like water. If you send first projectile it'll slow down but move some water to the sides. Second will slow down less so it'll catch up with the first one but it will also push some water to the sides. Third also will catch up with the previous ones but each subsequent one will get farther as it travels through space punched out by previous ones.
I don't think it's practical in any manner but I think such brute-forcing stream of projectiles out of atmosphere by literally punching hole in it might be nice to look at.