Magnetic launches?

[CyberPitz]

Astronauts are trained to withstand as much as nine times the force of gravity. (Three Gs, by comparison, could make the average guy pass out.) But even the toughest among them fall out of the running when it comes to a launch concept from a small civilian company in Goleta, California. To survive the ride on Launchpoint Technologies?s invention, the payload has to be able to survive a brain-splattering 10,000 Gs.

The design calls for a high-speed accelerator that whips a projectile as heavy as 220 pounds around a circular 1.5-mile-radius vacuum tunnel. Powerful electromagnetic motors inside the tunnel will accelerate the unit, strapped to a magnetic sled, in circles until it reaches a velocity of six miles per second and then will eject the projectile from a launch ramp into space.

http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/45055/Spin_Me_Up_Scotty

This is actually pretty sweet sounding. Would be awesome for launching up some little things, like food, water, etc for our men up there.

 

[Solaris]

What, aim it at the space shuttle and shoot?

 

[CyberPitz]

What, aim it at the space shuttle and shoot?

It has a small rocket on the pack that way it can aim when it's out of the atmosphere. But after it's all said and done, the launch pad can go on anything, near mountains, on water...anywhere. Great concept, and the fact that the Air Force is giving it money to develope means something.

 

[jondy]

Shit, 50,000 dollars for a launch, I could get a loan and put myself into orbit

 

[Adabiviak]

I don't know if I'd want my expensive communication satellite launched into space at crushing forces. How much of the magnetic field will the payload itself experience during launch? We could throw rocks at aliens though.

 

[Keane]

Shit, 50,000 dollars for a launch, I could get a loan and put myself into orbit

Too bad you wouldn't survive the launch

 

[xcellerate]

 

[function9]

Mmm, mashed, potatoes.

This could be something to get satellites to the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond quicker than what we can do now. It'll be interesting to see how this goes.

 

[hungryduck]

Shit, 50,000 dollars for a launch, I could get a loan and put myself into orbit

that is, if you could survive it.......10,000 gee's would probably turn you into a pulp.

 

[CyberPitz]

that is, if you could survive it.......10,000 gee's would probably turn you into a pulp.

I think a pulp is a little much....since 9 g's usually makes most people pass out.... D:

Hmm, do magnets work in space?

 

[jondy]

I think a pulp is a little much....since 9 g's usually makes most people pass out.... D:

Hmm, do magnets work in space?

Yes, and yes. Although in space, no one can hear you scream, 'Oh my god! Magnets work in space!'

 

[Link]

I think a pulp is a little much....since 9 g's usually makes most people pass out.... D:

Hmm, do magnets work in space?

Pulp would be about right. Imagine this. You weigh, for example 150 pounds. At 10,000 g's, you weigh 1,500,000, over 680 tons. I think that would pulp you.

Yes, magnets work in space.

The potential for this imo is for creating orbital stations. You lift up the basics, along with equipment to make what you need out of raw materials, then just fling raw materials up at next to no cost. From there you have a platform for space travel

 

[CyberPitz]

Pulp would be about right. Imagine this. You weigh, for example 150 pounds. At 10,000 g's, you weigh 1,500,000, over 680 tons. I think that would pulp you.

Yes, magnets work in space.

The potential for this imo is for creating orbital stations. You lift up the basics, along with equipment to make what you need out of raw materials, then just fling raw materials up at next to no cost. From there you have a platform for space travel

It's true, but think about launching things from one point in space to another. The cost would be so much lower to reach say, Saturn or something with a tester of a sort or something, I dunno. Would be a neat concept IMHO.

Anyway, yeah...this is definately an awesome idea to be implimented.

 

[Geogaddi]

Shit, 50,000 dollars for a launch, I could get a loan and put myself into orbit

Sounds like a sound investment to me.

 

[CyberPitz]

Sounds like a sound investment to me.

What if they launched a container that had gravity stabilizers or something, so the occupants wouldn't feel the G's? If those even exist or will exist ever

 

[Jerry_111]

Shit, 50,000 dollars for a launch, I could get a loan and put myself into orbit

50,000 dollars is a great price for launches. Right now the price is literally in the millions of dollars for launches.

And this might be a more doable, closer to the present method than say, a space elevator, which works in theory and would probably be cheaper in the long run -- but I don't see any government willing to shell out the money to get it built in the first place.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Whoa. It's like... the claybird launcher of the GODS :O

 

[Darkwolf]

I think a pulp is a little much....since 9 g's usually makes most people pass out.... D:

Hmm, do magnets work in space?

Of course magnets work in space! What do you call the Earth, and every other planet, if not a magnet?

 

[jondy]

50,000 dollars is a great price for launches. Right now the price is literally in the millions of dollars for launches.

I know, it's something like 5 million dollars D: way beyond my measly credit

Of course magnets work in space! What do you call the Earth, and every other planet, if not a magnet?

lollerskates

 

[Kula Meenur]

HAHAHAAA! Ok guys.

If they did start jettisoning ppl into space, i would hate to be the bloke that cleaned the tube afterwards.
100, let alone 10'000 G's would turn any human into mush = a very messy tube.

Also... how would they think of stopping the projectiles once they cleared Earth's atmosphere? Space = no air = no friction = nothing to slow the object down = endless inertia = BIG F**KING PROBLEM!!!

"In space nobody can hear you scream. Except Chuck Norris. And ur mom."

 

[CyberPitz]

HAHAHAAA! Ok guys.

If they did start jettisoning ppl into space, i would hate to be the bloke that cleaned the tube afterwards.
100, let alone 10'000 G's would turn any human into mush = a very messy tube.

Also... how would they think of stopping the projectiles once they cleared Earth's atmosphere? Space = no air = no friction = nothing to slow the object down = endless inertia = BIG F**KING PROBLEM!!!

Did you not read that they attached a small rocked on the item to guide it towards the location.

 

[Darkwolf]

I don't think he did. Additionally, they could fire it at a tradjectory to pull the projectile into an earth orbit easy enough. Or some other planet... which raises another question. Why doesn't NASA attempt to employ this as a means for getting probes to other planets faster? Surely if it can lob something fast enough to exert 10,000g's, then it is accelerating at a greater rate then your conventional rocket. So if NASA could design a probe to withstand that force, they could easily use it as a means for getting probes to other planets faster! Or something...

Eitherway, if this thing can be set up anywhere. Surely it would have uses as a weapon as well? Load a nuclear warhead into it (with an extremely strong case, granted) and lob it at a country!

Like a... WMD rail-driver or something...

 

[Bad^Hat]

Did you not read that they attached a small rocked on the item to guide it towards the location.

You mean like in Armadillo Run?

But hopefully somewhat more effective...

 

[15357]

Since you can't put people, or for that matter, electronics in space with this, I have another idea for its usage:

You could rain down 15-ton hunks of metal, with enough velocity to make it devastating, on a country 10,000kms away with this.

 

[CyberPitz]

Since you can't put people, or for that matter, electronics in space with this, I have another idea for its usage:

You could rain down 15-ton hunks of metal, with enough velocity to make it devastating, on a country 10,000kms away with this.

"And back in 2010, God wanted to punish us, so he decided to rain down large chunks of iron upon our civilization..."

 

[15357]

Yeah, NASA and/or Launchpoint Technologies shalt be our god.

 

[CyberPitz]

Yeah, NASA and/or Launchpoint Technologies shalt be our god.

Yeah

duh.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

Mass Drivers = win.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[CyberPitz]

The BEST freaking way to commit suicide IMHO.