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My idea would be to have a passenger aeroplane which flies
vertically up, out of the earths gravitational pull, waits there
for say 5 hours (if your destination was New York) at a fun
packed docking bay, for the earth to rotate, then fies back
down - vertically. Saving fuel and time.
Orbiting Transfer Lounge
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Shameless self-promotion. Also "saves fuel and time". [mrkillboy, Nov 20 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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Give everybody a parachute and launch them from a cannon. |
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Life was on hold until you were back, waugsqueke. |
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I'd rather risk crawling around in an underground 'chutes and ladders' sort of world than be catapulted up. I'd wager the bay at the orbiter would be packed…one look down and I'm not hopping into any plane (oops! This was an Outer Limits epidode, eh?) |
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Supposing you're west of New York? Wait for nearly one day? |
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Flying vertically up out of the Earth's gravitational pull
would save fuel compared to what? Orbiting the moon a
few times before flying to your destination maybe? I kind
of doubt it would save fuel compared to a conventional
airplane flight. |
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This is, of course, utter nonsense in several different ways. You seem to be confusing "gravitational pull" with the Earth's rotation, you probably confuse free-fall orbits with the inverse square law of gravitational attraction, you have some incredibly off-kilter ideas about the amount of energy required to do things... can we delete this for sheer ignorance? |
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Flying out the gravitational pulls = flying out the atmosphere... millions dollar will be spend on fuel and cooling systems (when flying thru the atmosphere!!) I think u should check out the NASA site and see how much they spend on making a spacecraft that fly to space... |
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You can't escape Earth's gravity. In orbit, "centrifugal force" of going around the Earth equals the force of gravity. Hello Physics. |
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You could just go straight up then fall straight down to a different spot on the Earth... |
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