26 points | by roomey 5 days ago ago
6 comments
Doesn't even need to be an actual chain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain
It's like you keep shooting ammo upward at it and it catches it and throws it down again, hard.
Related (Steve Mould has been fascinated with the centripetal physics of the chain): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcqX4UMXNKEdNBKABT3ZF...
This is essentially a powered Mould effect in place of using gravity.
The chain robot subplot of Seveneves makes a lot more sense now :)
the chain link tech in Seveneves was wild.
as a nearly perfectly uninformed occasional consumer of space-related articles, I can say it makes a lot of sense (to me) why we'd use something like that to move things around the solar system.
Doesn't even need to be an actual chain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain
It's like you keep shooting ammo upward at it and it catches it and throws it down again, hard.
Related (Steve Mould has been fascinated with the centripetal physics of the chain): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcqX4UMXNKEdNBKABT3ZF...
This is essentially a powered Mould effect in place of using gravity.
The chain robot subplot of Seveneves makes a lot more sense now :)
the chain link tech in Seveneves was wild.
as a nearly perfectly uninformed occasional consumer of space-related articles, I can say it makes a lot of sense (to me) why we'd use something like that to move things around the solar system.