Comment on The Slingatron: Building a Railroad to SpaceparentComments−jessaustin13yA structure 2000 km (actually, 4000 km) long is envisioned, with internal speeds of 14km/s. We're just not very good at building that sort of thing yet.−mjn13yAt those scales, it's considerably harder than building high-speed rail NYC<->LA, and the latter is usually ruled out as infeasible.
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A structure 2000 km (actually, 4000 km) long is envisioned, with internal speeds of 14km/s. We're just not very good at building that sort of thing yet.
At those scales, it's considerably harder than building high-speed rail NYC<->LA, and the latter is usually ruled out as infeasible.