This is completely different from what Branson is doing which is tourism for rich people. The proposal here is to launch large planes to the edge of atmosphere for rapid transportation.
If you bother reading the article you’ll see that the motivation here is to save fuel. It’s a lot cheaper to use an electromagnetic launcher to launch the plane.
Thing is that the west stopped making any ambitious engineering projects. The idea isn’t new, but the will to put these kinds of things in practice doesn’t exist outside of China.
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This is completely different from what Branson is doing which is tourism for rich people. The proposal here is to launch large planes to the edge of atmosphere for rapid transportation.
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If you bother reading the article you’ll see that the motivation here is to save fuel. It’s a lot cheaper to use an electromagnetic launcher to launch the plane.
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Again, I’m sure actual engineers designing this stuff have in fact thought about these things.
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I love how you think you know more about the subject than the actual engineers building this stuff. 😂
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Thing is that the west stopped making any ambitious engineering projects. The idea isn’t new, but the will to put these kinds of things in practice doesn’t exist outside of China.
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