• @Delphia
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    26 months ago

    What does that even mean? Yes, this is a question of physics.

    • [email protected]
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      26 months ago

      8 gs is enough to cause most to pass out. 40 gs is usually going to cause permanent injury. Accelerating on a ramp at less than 40 gs would take a while if you want to reach escape velocity which is like Mach 25. Just mental mathing poorly, it’d be like a mile or two of railgun. Iunno, someone sober do the math.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months ago

        Well yeah a lot of the concepts for magnetic accelerators for orbital launches in the past 50 odd years have required 2+ km of ramps to work well

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      Mathematically it’s possible, like you mentioned. But due to physical restrictions of our planet it might not be feasible