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The Skeptics Guide #856 - Dec 4 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Advantage of Spin Launch Over Harp

spin launch was a legitimate project, and it worked. The cost of resurrecting a harp like system would be much less than building spin launch. Rail guns use electromagnetic forces in order to accelerate a peromagnetic projectile down along a rail that's magnetized. It actualy could have gentler acceleration forces. And you can get things up to extremely high speed.

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