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Originally posted by M. Krass
While space-age technology is often applied to roller coasters, roller coasters probably aren't terribly applicable to spacecraft.
Stan Checkett's doesn't know what he's doing. At all. He's a lucky man, and he's doing things that haven't been done before, but he's not innovating.
I think, at some point, you'd reach some equilibrium point where the structure needed to house the compressed air would weigh more than that volume of air it houses could actually move. Or something.
I like ramjets, myself.
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You like shooting down my ideas, don't you?
But NASA was really looking at LSM and LIM motors.