Earth based mass driver, but not as we know it.

On 05/12/2007, Xenophile wrote:
>
> This sounds cool enough. Indeed it sounds very cool.
> Of course, he'll never know that I feel that way. I can't tell him.
> He considers attaboys to be bad.
> Nor does he seem aware of the fact that small amounts of money from
> large amounts of people add up to large amounts of money.
> Actually, the biggest technical hurdle seems to lie in what to do with
> the dead weight of all that excess attitude. No way you're lifting
> that off the ground.

LOL.

I don't think he's that bad; I read the bit you're referring to as mostly
'don't waste my time with dumb ideas that you just thought of, cos I get a
lot of trash sent at me, but *do* waste my time if you've thought about it a
*lot* and have sound engineering stuff'

Well, the idea itself seems workable. I wish him the best of luck...
> just don't tell him about it.

The problem is financial mostly; also a lot of people won't believe it can
be done unless they stand on a bridge held up by the principle that this
uses.

There's also the other issues- it kind of falls between stools, to a
mechanical engineer, it's an electrical engineering project, to an
electrical engineer, it's a structural engineering project or an aerospace
project... to a physicist it's low tech stuff... etc. etc.

I think they need to get llots of undergrads to build stuff and enthuse
about it, that way it will get done.
--
-Ian Woollard

We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
imperfect world things would be a lot better.