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jorleif
on March 13, 2018
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Larry Page’s Flying Taxis, Now Exiting Stealth Mod...
That is a good point... So now I'm back to the giant slingshot idea.
icebraining
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What about a buried rail gun, as a less explosive version of the columbiad in Jules Verne's
From the Earth to the Moon
? You'd step on to a circular platform, get slowly lowered into the barrel, then shot into the sky, where the wings would open :)
Piskvorrr
on March 13, 2018
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Acceleration profile could be the issue here.
stcredzero
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Scott Addams got there first.
https://goo.gl/images/dsGSgv
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