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In principle, it is kind of like having a slingshot with a rubber band that is a hundred miles long. Put your vehicle on the track, then accelerate it until it can fly off.
From the story Spirals by Niven and Pournelle.
The Space Studies Institute built prototype mass drivers as early as 1975; as far as I know, the concept originated with Gerard K. O'Neill in the early 1970's. Comment/Join this discussion ( 2 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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