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Devac  ·  1027 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: SpinLaunch conducts first test of suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America

    I can't come up with a better scheme to fuck over unworthy venture capitalists.

    Hey Devac, what/how do you want to do/scam?

That's a tad blatant steal, but sure.

OK, so we all know spinning is a good trick. Anakin does it, LHC does it, SpinLaunch does it. But that's their folly: too many moving parts!

Imagine this, a revolution in the field of ballistic coming in a shape of a cylinder under vacuum.

"How does it move the object?" you ask? Easy. Forget of the by-gone era of complex rotor with(out) a counter-balance or chemical propellant.

It'll utilize the tremendous power hidden in a svelte form factor of a cranked-up spring.

That's right, only TWO moving parts: crank and trigger.

And here's the opportunity for synergy™: Elon Musk already works on vacuum tubes with carts in them, all we need is convince him to forget about that silly electrical automobile gizmo and finance our Spring Theory research.

BTW, my working name for the device would be The Tosser™.