I am starting to see some holes in my plan. I've been thinking about this since the weekend, too. Almost posted on Saturday night, but thought I'd sit on it for a couple days.
At least you didn't start an entire company around it (i.e. Hyperloop).
Or actually maybe you should have.. get investors, make a bunch of money, abandon the project, then use that money to go into space.
__________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position.
But certainty is an absurd one.
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Dumb question. Have you ever tried the iFly indoor skydiving thing?
No, I haven't done it. I did take my kids there and it looked really neat. The employees are insanely good and shoot right up to the top of it and do tricks and stuff. My back was kind of gibbled when we were there, which is why I didn't. It doesn't seem scary or anything.
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No, I haven't done it. I did take my kids there and it looked really neat. The employees are insanely good and shoot right up to the top of it and do tricks and stuff. My back was kind of gibbled when we were there, which is why I didn't. It doesn't seem scary or anything.
Maybe you should wear a weight lifting belt to facilitate back recovery. I haven't tried myself, but I wonder if you'd get that weightlessness feeling you crave while also inspire you for your idea.
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Why would you build something so obtusely expensive when you have way more freedom to just do this with a plane. Just buy a 747, have the pilot go up and down, and boom. Your proposal is just wasteful (in addition to the thousand other technical problems with it of course.) But my main problem is that it's extremely inefficient and someone has already figured out how to do this.
Frankly it would probably be cheaper to just shoot yourself into actual space than to build a tunnel vertically down 2km through a mountain as proposed. Lol.
Yeah, that's what I wanted to replicate on earth. They feel weightless.
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
Why would you build something so obtusely expensive when you have way more freedom to just do this with a plane. Just buy a 747, have the pilot go up and down, and boom. Your proposal is just wasteful (in addition to the thousand other technical problems with it of course.) But my main problem is that it's extremely inefficient and someone has already figured out how to do this.
Frankly it would probably be cheaper to just shoot yourself into actual space than to build a tunnel vertically down 2km through a mountain as proposed. Lol.
Do you think I want to make this for personal use or something? The plan was you'd sell rides on it.
