Re: Magnetic levitation for launch ?
- From: Nomen Nescio <nobody@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:40:04 +0200 (CEST)
Another small detail overlooked in this discussion is Newton's Law of
Reaction. Mag-Lev launches in a tangential direction, as in trains, cancel
out; that is, the trip going cancels the reaction of the trip coming.
Such would not be the case in vertical launches. As the number of launches
rise, the destabilizing effect on the Earth's rotation and/or orbit would
soon be felt. Who would accept a changing period for a year or day as a
fair exchange for saving a few loads of rocket fuel?
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