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"My feeling is that the chance of our surviving into the twenty-first century as working civilization is less than fifty percent but greater than zero."
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![]() Tired of paying high prices at the Authority catapult for goods shipped back to Earth, the hard-working Loonies decide to build one for themselves.
It turns out that hurling multi-ton cargo containers down to Earth has an alternative use during conflicts.
Prototype mass-drivers were first constructed in 1976. Mass Driver 1 was an early prototype mass driver. It consisted of a series of coils through which a small bucket would travel, pushed by the magnetic field of each coil as it was energized. It was created by Gerard K. O'Neill, Henry Kolm, and a variety of students at MIT. It was able to achieve accelerations of around 30Gs.
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'... the imprint of her image on the telephoto cell.'
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