[black6]

The Lofstrom Launch Loop[0] is less fanciful than a 5000 mph centrifuge slinging payloads into LEO.

0: http://launchloop.com/

[definetheword]

How is this less fanciful?

[paledot]

Because the physics actually works.

[blackrock]

Really? What will they use to build the legs to support it?

[paledot]

Those aren't legs, they're guy wires.

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

I said the physics works. The engineering is a totally different question.

[definetheword]

"I said the physics works. The engineering is a totally different question."

So if the engineering is questionable or unrealistic, how is it less fanciful?

[paledot]

In 50 years or 100 years, there might be a launch loop. There will never be a launch centrifuge, not in 50 or 100 or 1000. Fluid dynamics simply don't allow objects to move that fast at ground level.

0.000000000001 > 0