Is it possible? If so, what would the ramp length and height need to be?

  • glimse@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Yeah but like what if the ramp went past the exosphere? Drive that rocketship up at 1mph for 100 days and you’ll be in space!

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      the longer you spend at sub orbital speeds, the longer you’re spending energy to counter gravity. Building a ramp and lifting it up slowly would only be feasible if you had cheap power to do it. but over all, you’re still using most the same amount of energy to get there anyways.

      also… if you’re going to slow, you’ll just fall back down…