Without the contributions of millions of others on a daily basis you’d have nothing.

But I think pouching the payload (presumably forming the structure around the payload) just translates the problem into holding a 8kg steel block to the ceiling with 1cm square of paper formed into a harness, and expecting it to hold for weeks.

Either way - hopefully it will be addressed in a follow-up

And even if you can find some magic superglue left in the tube to hold it there, it has to hang there for weeks: A cubist sword of Damocles.

I’m very skeptical about Spinlaunch, but even if you can pour enough epoxy over something to allow it to survive 10k Gs for a few minutes, I am not sure you can scale it to 100k+ Gs for weeks, for a postage stamp sized payload that has to be almost perfectly flat - that just seems like a completely different problem domain.

I think the idea bears further investigation, but the omission from the paper feels a bit odd.

Good luck with the novel!

I am not sure that anything useful could survive that kind of sustained crushing acceleration. By comparison a rifle bullet being shot is around 100k Gs for millisecond , this would go on for weeks or months.

The reduced 24-bit address bus was never a significant bottleneck during its commercial lifetime, as little consumer software at the time would require more than 4mb of RAM, and by the time it did the 486SX (32bit busses with no maths coprocessor) was the new value champion.

The rest of the world having to clean up the mess left by the Soviet Union (paying for the cleanup and decommissioning of nuclear submarines, Chernobyl, rebuilding eastern Europe) may have a lot to do with the anti-Soviet attitude.

Have you ever wondered if maybe that (and by extension your attitude to it) is part of the problem?