On 6/5/20 2:46 pm, Kelly St. Clair wrote:
> On 5/5/2020 8:48 PM, Rupert Boleyn wrote:
>>
>> The objections are just about all social - cheap effective gravitics
>> makes getting to and from orbit easy, even trivial.
>
> Yup: beanstalks are a workaround for the terribly punishing terms of
> the rocket equation, but when you have magic carpets (and, perhaps
> even more importantly, can build them yourself, at any size you like)...
>
> One's on the hazy edge of theoretically possible real-world
> engineering and materials science, while the other is outright fantasy.

How does that change at nontrivial scale?  For example, billions of
shuttlecraft in flight around the clock?

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