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The Man Who Built A Gun To Shoot Space

Behind the Bastards

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Big Babylon Launching Platform

Big babylon would have been capable of shooting a 600 kilogagram projectile across a thousand kilometers of distance. Each shot would have used nine tons of a specially designed propellant. Right now, nassau estimates it cost about 22 thousand dollars per kilogram to put something into orbit. The concept doesn't sound like he seelse make ideas plausible.

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