Spinlaunch: BUSTED!
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it as the skeptical debunking of SpinLaunch whenever the company or similar launch concepts come up.
What it is
Thunderf00t critiques SpinLaunch, the startup that proposes flinging payloads to space with a giant centrifuge. He argues the physics and engineering do not hold up.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2021 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Critical curiousfab · 2021-12 · on “Scientists find a way to ‘catapult’ rockets into space like ‘slingshots’”
If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Spinlaunch: BUSTED!: [this video] Spinlaunch: BUSTED (Part 2): [LINK]
Critical MongooseMan · 2022-04 · on “NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites into orbit”
Sorry to put a dampener on things, but Thunderf00t has already done two debunking videos on SpinLaunch. He's rarely wrong. [this video] [LINK]
Critical belter · 2022-04 · on “NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites into orbit”
Hopefully NASA watched this video, before making the contacts public instead of first examining the claims privately. "Spinlaunch: BUSTED!": [this video]
Critical nix23 · 2022-11 · on “Project Babylon”
It's as brilliant and a scam as Hyperloop. Balloons with a small launcher would be cheaper...but that's lame and not cool (marketing)....like normal trains instead of Hyper ;) Spinlaunch: BUSTED! 1+2 [this video] [LINK]
Critical YourCompanyHere · 2023-06 · on “Starlink v2 reached the brightness reduction target recommended by astronomers”
sadly spinlaunch is bogus and the whole concept doesn't really work out. [0] [0] [this video] (Spinlaunch: BUSTED! by Thunderf00t)