Towering kilometers into the air, but capable of effortlessly flinging thousands of pounds of payload into orbit on each launch, the Orbital Trebuchet is the ideal candidate for replacing our outdated rocket technology. Once completed, space travel will become cheap and plentiful, and anyone will be able to buy a ticket to ride into space on the arm of this powerful yet very simple device.Coming soon: Scale models, and information on how astronauts would survive the squashing G-forces of acceleration!
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