The mass driver is far from forgotten, but the public spirit for supporting grand ambitious projects has given way to smaller priorities.
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Ryan, I hear ya. The things we did in the 1970s-1980s with the Mass Driver in many ways was forgotten. The evidence of this is the desire to still use chemical rockets to send things into orbit. Gerry would have thought it absurd to do this with objects.
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This also appears to be something that would be extremely expensive given current technology and would require the joint efforts of a consortium of wealthy governments and individuals to pull off. 20 to 40 years from now this could be possible though.
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The space colony in the video game Mass Effect brought this to life.
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