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Spinlaunch: BUSTED!
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Thunderf00t critiques SpinLaunch, the startup that proposes flinging payloads to space with a giant centrifuge. He argues the physics and engineering do not hold up.
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HN points to it as the skeptical debunking of SpinLaunch whenever the company or similar launch concepts come up.
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From the Hacker News discussion
If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Spinlaunch: BUSTED!: [VIDEO] Spinlaunch: BUSTED (Part 2): [LINK]
Read original comment ↗Sorry to put a dampener on things, but Thunderf00t has already done two debunking videos on SpinLaunch. He's rarely wrong. [VIDEO] [LINK]
Read original comment ↗Hopefully NASA watched this video, before making the contacts public instead of first examining the claims privately. "Spinlaunch: BUSTED!": [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗It's as brilliant and a scam as Hyperloop. Balloons with a small launcher would be cheaper...but that's lame and not cool (marketing)....like normal trains instead of Hyper ;) Spinlaunch: BUSTED! 1+2 [VIDEO] [LINK]
Read original comment ↗sadly spinlaunch is bogus and the whole concept doesn't really work out. [0] [0] [VIDEO] (Spinlaunch: BUSTED! by Thunderf00t)
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