Couldn't you replicate this on earth by simply building a track around the circumference. If a pod attached to the track went fast enough that the centrifugal force equaled gravity. Maybe this would work.
For low orbit in space you need to go 28,000km/h so to do it on the surface its probably only 2 or 3 times faster
Now we have a good use for a hyperloop!
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I was going to ask why it has to be in a mountain, as that seems like it would create extra costs/risk. However, I also can't think of a better solution to make a really long vertical tube. You definitely wouldn't be able to make a free standing structure anywhere near as tall as a mountain.
This idea really has a lot of thought put into it, despite the crude and childish drawing accompanying it.
Hey I just looked it up and there are 3700 kilometres of roadways and tunnels in the mines under Canmore. I think maybe we overestimated the difficulty of creating a simple 800 meter tunnel through Ha Ling. This could actually be easier than it seems. Plus maybe we can use some of the existing mine shafts...good chance half the digging is already done.
In theory probably, though in a maglev train is lifted at right angles to the axis of travel and in parallel with the weight of the train. It's lifting up and the train can hover above the magnets that are lifting, so it's simple.
In this the lifting/pushing would have to be done along the axis of travel so seems like it might be more complicated. Though you could use magnets to just worry about the room staying centered in the shaft and worry about something on the box for acceleration/deceleration.
The engineering just seems a lot harder and more dangerous in a vertical shaft where if things fail you fall uncontrolled.. even a slight buffet could smash you into a wall.
Engineering things that have never been done before are expensive.
Also 800m gets you about 12 seconds of weightlessness.. you'd need another 800m to stop in 12 seconds at 2g's.
Or if you have 800m total you get 9 seconds of weightlessness and then 9 seconds of deceleration.
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I had about 9 seconds of weightlessness in a SAR Twin Otter when the pilot did a pushover when I was in cadets. Mind you we weren't allowed to undo our seatbelts. But it didn't cost billions of dollars either.
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This feels like it’s headed in the same direction as that titanic pop bottle submarine, so I just want to say that I appreciate you, Sliver, and will miss you.
Would you actually feel weightless in this thing or would you be plastered on the ceiling of this canister as it races down to the bottom?
Just skip the deceleration zone and this could just be a going out party. You’d have to sell the canisters to every person though, like a casket but it’s a self flattening tin can. Sliver can be at the bottom with a fork lift putting em all on a flat bed and Locke can drive them off to the metal recycler to get the deposits back.
Hey, so I've mentioned it before, but I'm really bothered by the incessant and unrelenting nature of gravity.
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