The Atlantis Project - A Space Launch Mechanism

Active support is a technique for emulating super materials by applying large amounts of energy. A helicopter or drone quadcopter that had an electric engine could be anchored to the ground with a power cable from a power plant. We could also do the same with a plane, but we would need to fly in a circle to avoid breaking that power cable. Of course if it was flying high and had a rail gun or electromagnetic cannon on it, a mass driver, it could launch things from that altitude. The topic today will essentially replace that circling plane with a much better static ring which spacecraft can race along to launch into space at accelerations humans would find comfortable.

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