Wed Feb 10, 2021 10:32 pm
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Morten wrote:You mean with something like a rail-based launch system ?
Basically an idea that Arthur C Clarke wrote a novel about in the late 50s ISTR
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Morten wrote:You mean with something like a rail-based launch system ?
Morten wrote:Indeed. Mr. Clark is also credited for being the first person to posit the usefulness of geostationary orbit for telecommunication purposes - and lo!
Stu B wrote:The old ideas are the best (action starts at 0:40)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvm5NEUwd8k
(Similar idea seemed to work quite well in the South Atlantic!)
peter272 wrote:...
Brunel was a great engineering innovator, but he often left his backers with great losses
Hitch wrote:The Dan Dare reference made me smile. Long long time since I read the Eagle.
The soon to be Dan Dare site already looks reasonably futuristic at the moment; it’s the giant golf ball on the headland. Picture taken just a few months ago when we did a formation tour of Shetland.