[ExI] question re "honkin' big cannon" space launch

[Stefano Vaj]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Jeff Davis <jrd1415 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometime back I was chatting with spike about various nerd-boy (or
> girl) topics, when I touched on the ancient(Verne/Wells?) idea of
> space launch by cannon.  Spike, (in a manner far too conventional and
> dismissive for one of his imagination and flagrant sense of humor)
> naysayed the notion, mentioning some problem (hypersonic acoustic
> shock, or some such techno-jargonaut obscurantism).

Balistically, any orbit purely originated from earth-based thrust
intersect the earth body in one or two points, if I am not mistaken.

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Stefano Vaj