cheap orbital insertion Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: cheap orbital insertion
# 455 byaglobus@... on Jan. 16, 2001, 10:45 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
One problem you didn't mention is sabotage. A large system withsmall tolerances spread out over hundreds of kilometers will be very difficultto defend if someone without an aversion to violence decides they don'tlike it. Consider the recent burnings of houses in subdivisions byELF.
Darren Brown wrote:
Ed, Tom & others,
This idea of some kind of very large magnetic launch system seems to
really be popular, I wonder why, sometimes it seems that is the fact
that it's big, what's the benefit of your launch system being 100 or
1,000 or 10,000 Kms long? My problem with such large systemsis that
while they make great settings for a story, they have practical,
logistical problems that are very hard to solve, ...