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At 12 m diameter it would be 82000 gees, eight times the acceleration they're targeting; their render is of a roughly 100-meter-diameter chamber. At 82000 gees rotor integrity becomes probably unmanageable with existing materials. At 100 meters we're talking 420 rpm, 22 radians per second.

I don't think the launch angle needs to be precise; if it's off by 10 degrees (175 milliradians) they lose 1.6% of their altitude to cosine error. That would be an error of plus or minus 8 milliseconds, which seems about two orders of magnitude on the easy side of achievable.



Trying to make a 100 meter structure of this kind is madness

There are no materials that are stiff enough at that size - not even carbon fiber.

The biggest ships engine shafts are literally like pasta and only work because they are mounted on dozens of bearings at regularly spaced intervals.


Not even wrong. Water isn't vacuum. cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31036411


milliseconds precision triggering of mechanism is trivial. It just means you need a processor which clocks megahertz not kilohertz.


Even kilohertz would probably be adequate.


No - there is something called inertia


Simultaneously irrelevant and condescending.




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