Comment on Tossing Satellites into Orbit with SpinLaunch: Is that Possible? | Interesting Engineering

sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well it’s been almost ten years and they still aren’t launching into space so I’d say they’ve been correct so far.

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Everything is impossible, until it isn’t.

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    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Being possible and being feasible aren’t the same thing.

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And some things never are. I don’t think spin launch is doomed to failure, but there are definitely projects that some people take seriously that are legitimately never going to happen

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      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Eh… eventually anything we are trying to do now short of things that would break natural laws will be possible at one point or another.

        For instance, even though something crazy like the Theranos Edison is impossible with current and even near future tech, it’s going to be possible one day, which is a certainty.

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• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’re dreaming of you think this is remotely feasible.

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  • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Strange that a bunch of aerospace and mechanical engineers believe it is, and have tested the math, yet some random person who probably doesn’t even work on STEM believes they have the better idea.

    I can’t tell if you genuinely think you’re smarter than these people or if this is just the classic “space craft are stupid!” Rhetoric that’s become popular since Musk started SpaceX.

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    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Strange that a bunch of aerospace and mechanical engineers believe it is

      It’s not that strange. There are lots of people willing to con others out of investment money.

      who probably doesn’t even work on STEM

      You’re wrong there

      I can’t tell if you genuinely think you’re smarter than these people or if this is just the classic “space craft are stupid!” Rhetoric that’s become popular since Musk started SpaceX.

      I don’t think I’m smarter than these people. I think I’m smarter than the people being conned by these people. Spacecraft certainly aren’t stupid. A lot of what SpaceX has done in spite of Musk has been amazing to see. Their rocket engine development is some of the coolest stuff out there. It’s too bad that the company is led by a con man who makes grandiose claims that they’ll never live up to.

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• dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You don’t need to be Stephen Hawkings to understand that the bottleneck is not in the launch sling but in the satellite themselves. The idea is in the same league as the space elevator; sure you can do it, but is it better than rockets?

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