Not your daddies mass driver Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Not your daddies mass driver
# 10235 byjoe@... on Aug. 1, 2007, 2:28 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
On Aug 01, 2007, at 11:11 UTC, ANTIcarrot wrote:
> translate to 30kmps?
It's 30 times the speed of sound *in the cable*, which I guess must be
1 km/s.
> At 1G, the cable would have to be 45,000km long to achieve a final
> velocity of 30kmps.
Yeah, that was my concern with the proposal of launching humans on it,
too.
Cheers,
- Joe
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