Skyhooks: Hacking Physics To Build the Future of Our Species
Long an in-joke used among senior staff in factories and shipyards, to send new recruits on a fruitless search, skyhooks might actually become a real thing one day. In the latter sense, a skyhook, as the name suggests, is a theoretical momentum transfer device that could be used as an alternative way to launch space vehicles.
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