zik@zorg.socialtoVideos@lemmy.world•Tossing Satellites into Orbit with SpinLaunch: Is that Possible? | Interesting Engineering
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1 year agoThat actually makes it much worse. Kinetic energy is a square law so to reach orbit at 5 times the velocity requires 5x5=25 times the energy they're currently using. And air resistance is also a square law so making it go 5 times faster also results in 25 times the air resistance and 25 times the heating due to it.
Most likely if they did get it going fast enough to make it to orbit, it'd burn up in the lower atmosphere before it even got very far.
Can we talk about Rock Paper Shotgun's horrible dark pattern with cookies? It took me a couple of minutes to work out how to reject all cookies, and even then I'm not sure I did it correctly.
I thought there were laws about the number of clicks required to reject cookies?