| ▲ | Chain Flinger(nealstephenson.substack.com) |
| 29 points by roomey 5 days ago | 6 comments |
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| ▲ | jaggederest 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Doesn't even need to be an actual chain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain |
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| ▲ | skybrian an hour ago | parent [-] | | It's like you keep shooting ammo upward at it and it catches it and throws it down again, hard. |
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| ▲ | JKCalhoun 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Related (Steve Mould has been fascinated with the centripetal physics of the chain): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcqX4UMXNKEdNBKABT3ZF... |
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| ▲ | lukebechtel 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The chain robot subplot of Seveneves makes a lot more sense now :) |
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| ▲ | FrameworkFred an hour ago | parent [-] | | the chain link tech in Seveneves was wild. as a nearly perfectly uninformed occasional consumer of space-related articles, I can say it makes a lot of sense (to me) why we'd use something like that to move things around the solar system. |
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