Trex202@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 12 days agoIf you had a huge slingshot, how much rubber band would you need to send a spaceship into space?message-squaremessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down13
arrow-up159arrow-down1message-squareIf you had a huge slingshot, how much rubber band would you need to send a spaceship into space?Trex202@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 12 days agomessage-square14linkfedilink
minus-squareZwuzelmaus@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·12 days ago Can’t exceed the speed of sound in the material, not speed of sound in the atmosphere. Speed of sound in the air is a serious problem as well. It would probably break most rubber bands.
Speed of sound in the air is a serious problem as well. It would probably break most rubber bands.