>>14353161damn I at least expected some UFO mumbo jumbo, was really hoping you'd say quantized inertia, you disappoint me. Yeah quantized inertia is probably BS, but at least it's testable and testing it is cheap.
>>14353162>>nobody seems to want to build onetransporting people requires that it be >1 THOUSAND KILOMETERS long. Even the gen 1 system requires a fairly large investment.
>>14353165>>14353162any space transport system that requires a big investment is pretty risky. There may not be a big market for space travel even if it is made cheap. In the 90s all sorts of space companies were made trying to lift the iridium constellation to provide phone and pager coverage over the whole world! But then cellphone infrastructure got built out, satellite phones turned out to be shit, people stopped using pagers, and iridium went bust, so all the associated space companies went bust. That and a whole new approach could get developed before the infrastructure gets paid off. But mainly, there just isn't a big market for cheap space launch.
>>mass driverany mass driver has to be fuck huge for transporting anyone. If you're pulling as much g's as a rollercoaster you miss out on the old people market
>>orbital ringhas not shown to be stable for cases we can actually build
>> space elevatorwe can't make long enough strong enough materials to make one. Although we make have strong enough materials, we just can't make them long enough. That being said, beamed power launch is an interesting option, it uses rockets, but in some cases it can look like UFOs so it makes the schizos happy
