This looks fantastic if it'd work, but I wonder if it'd be more useful to build in space, and then use it to launch little probes. No atmospheric drag.
I realize building it in space would be a good bit harder than on the ground. I'm just in wouldn't-it-be-cool land.
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This looks fantastic if it'd work, but I wonder if it'd be more useful to build in space, and then use it to launch little probes. No atmospheric drag.
I realize building it in space would be a good bit harder than on the ground. I'm just in wouldn't-it-be-cool land.
Build it on the ground, and use that ground based version to sling up the moon based version, and use that to sling out the stuff for the Mars colony?