If you bother reading the article you’ll see that the motivation here is to save fuel. It’s a lot cheaper to use an electromagnetic launcher to launch the plane.
Thing is that the west stopped making any ambitious engineering projects. The idea isn’t new, but the will to put these kinds of things in practice doesn’t exist outside of China.
Physics states that this type of travel is perfectly possible. The question is whether people want to invest into making this sort of tech or not. I’m familiar with the arguments for and against this tech already. What I’m trying to explain to you is that serious people are working on this project, and it’s absurd to assume that they don’t understand basic things you learned from a short youtube video.
If you bother reading the article you’ll see that the motivation here is to save fuel. It’s a lot cheaper to use an electromagnetic launcher to launch the plane.
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I love how you think you know more about the subject than the actual engineers building this stuff. 😂
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Thing is that the west stopped making any ambitious engineering projects. The idea isn’t new, but the will to put these kinds of things in practice doesn’t exist outside of China.
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Physics states that this type of travel is perfectly possible. The question is whether people want to invest into making this sort of tech or not. I’m familiar with the arguments for and against this tech already. What I’m trying to explain to you is that serious people are working on this project, and it’s absurd to assume that they don’t understand basic things you learned from a short youtube video.
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Again, are you suggesting that people working on this stuff lack the understanding that you have, and aren’t able to understand these problems?
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Again, I’m sure actual engineers designing this stuff have in fact thought about these things.