☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agoChina plans to build a giant rail gun to launch hypersonic planes into spacewww.scmp.comexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkChina plans to build a giant rail gun to launch hypersonic planes into spacewww.scmp.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squaregoatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoIt smells like tech bro nonsense, doesn’t it? Save fuel is it? Ok, put it on a train. Water in the way? Put it on a boat. They’re super efficient.
minus-squareheluecht@pirati.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months ago@goatsarah BTW: This sounds like a super sized “Spinlaunch” in my ears - which also has got a lot of technical difficulties.
minus-squaregoatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months ago@heluecht Yeah, without the whole centrifuge thing. I think, reading between the lines, someone is daydreaming about some pointless nonsense and a journalist added 2 and 2 and came up with 10000
It smells like tech bro nonsense, doesn’t it?
Save fuel is it? Ok, put it on a train. Water in the way? Put it on a boat. They’re super efficient.
@goatsarah BTW: This sounds like a super sized “Spinlaunch” in my ears - which also has got a lot of technical difficulties.
@heluecht Yeah, without the whole centrifuge thing.
I think, reading between the lines, someone is daydreaming about some pointless nonsense and a journalist added 2 and 2 and came up with 10000