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!niqjediPCA Sun 21 Mar 19:01:24 2021 No.12863949 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12863951 >>12863955 >>12863964 >>12864002 >>12864291

What would 12 pounds of C4 do to the following?

1. Orbital elevator
2. Orbital ring
3. Lofstrom loop
4. SSTO shuttle.

be specific, be concise, be thorough.

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Anonymous Sun 21 Mar 2021 19:02:14 No.12863951 Report

Quoted By: >>12863970

>>12863949
fuck shit up

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Anonymous Sun 21 Mar 2021 19:02:50 No.12863955 Report

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>>12863949
1-4
>add 12 pounds of mass

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!niqjediPCA Sun 21 Mar 2021 19:04:01 No.12863964 Report

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>>12863949

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!niqjediPCA Sun 21 Mar 2021 19:05:03 No.12863970 Report

Quoted By: >>12863981

>>12863951
>fuck shit up

how much shit?

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Anonymous Sun 21 Mar 2021 19:08:15 No.12863981 Report

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>>12863970
>enclosed pressurized volume
>detonation
It really doesn't take much when the pressure has no way to go

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Anonymous Sun 21 Mar 2021 19:13:50 No.12864002 Report

Quoted By: >>12864222

>>12863949
>What would 12 pounds of C4 do to the following?
>1. Orbital elevator
Depends on where
>2. Orbital ring
Depends on where
>3. Lofstrom loop
Depends on where
>4. SSTO shuttle.
Fuck it up

>be specific, be concise, be thorough.
I did.

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!niqjediPCA Sun 21 Mar 2021 20:12:42 No.12864222 Report

Quoted By: >>12864227

>>12864002
>Depends on where

in general, on earth.

>Depends on where

in general, on earth.

>Depends on where

in general, on earth.

>Fuck it up
how much investment we talking? how much mass, how many manhours, how much precious metals, how much tooling, how much research?

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!niqjediPCA Sun 21 Mar 2021 20:13:45 No.12864227 Report

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>>12864222
how much re-entry velocity?

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!niqjediPCA Sun 21 Mar 2021 20:23:41 No.12864252 Report

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Anonymous Sun 21 Mar 2021 20:33:54 No.12864291 Report

Quoted By: >>12864968

>>12863949
1. depends on where and the strength to weight ratio of the cable, cable may snap. Some debris may rain down, some cable may even get ejected from earth
2. you could snap the ring, it will reach a higher orbit. Orbital dynamics of large flexible structures is weird and it may end up dipping into the atmosphere or generate lots of space debris
3. debris rain down in vicinity of loop
4. KA-BOOM!

Orbital tethers could probably tank it. You can design them to eat fat iridium sats for breakfast

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!niqjediPCA Sun 21 Mar 2021 23:19:35 No.12864968 Report

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>>12864291
>1. depends on where and the strength to weight ratio of the cable, cable may snap. Some debris may rain down, some cable may even get ejected from earth

would the tensile strength of the centrifugal tether be able to maintain integrity against the counterweight? and what happens if it couldn't?

what happens to the tether?

>2. you could snap the ring, it will reach a higher orbit. Orbital dynamics of large flexible structures is weird and it may end up dipping into the atmosphere or generate lots of space debris

none of them would aerobrake and descend to the surface as fireballs?

>3. debris rain down in vicinity of loop

>vicinity

and this rotor is how long exactly? and what's the "Vicinity"; also total unit cost?

>4. KA-BOOM!

how BIG a kaboom?

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