Originally posted by FabianFnas
I never protest without reason and it happens that I put more information into a discussion to broaden the view. If everyone was agreeing in everything there wouldn'nt be any ground for any forum, methinks.
I've haven't done any calculation, but if 10% is true, that means that the shuttle needs an engine boost, 10¤ of the liftoff power to change the or ...[text shortened]... clusion: More, britty much more, than a small engine. We talk about 'a lot' here, methinks.
Methinks thee recognizes a joketh time not🙂 Of course with the shuttle, the rockets power is continuously vectored off to get the tangential so when the engines are shut down, they have already done the left twist, so it happens in one smooth transition, kind of like the Osprey, the tilt wing plane that has sucked up 20 billion dollars and killed 30 people already? It transitions between vertical thrust and tangential, or horizontal thrust to turn it into a regular airplane. I really would like to see some real simulations and see if there is some kind of orbit available from micro manipulation of the ramp velocity. I wonder what a geostationary orbit would be like for our fabled cubical planet? I was thinking in terms of how you would go about building a space elevator on such a place. I am thinking in terms of a sci-fi book about the place and once you have the technology to build such a place, the benefits like a mostly energy free transport system. Question, the variation of the same thing on earth would be making a chord shaped tunnel dipping down into the earth, evacuating it and running a train, accomplishing much the same thing, but where does the energy come from? What happens in the long run to the planet if such a transport were to be actually built. Obviously, on our cubical planet, it would be much easier engineering wise to build than one on the Earth but given one is built, where does the energy come from, I mean you accel and decel for 'free'. ( the ultimate example of that would be drilling a tunnel straight down through the center of the earth and evacuating that tunnel and just dropping a craft, it accelerates to just about escape velocity when it passes the center of the earth and then decels on the trip back up until it has zero velocity at the other end where you just brake it in place, people get off, new people and cargo get on and let go the brakes and the cycle starts anew. So suppose you have a very long lived civilization, billions of years, and thousands of such tunnels, where does the energy come from and is there a down side for the planet, like shrinking or something.