Talk:2981: Slingshots

Hi 172.71.150.236 03:02, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi 172.70.210.5 04:27, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

'Lo172.69.195.201 10:14, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

We don't put tables in the transcript, which is supposed to be screen-readable. Tables are not screen-readable. Ianrbibtitlht (talk) 04:25, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

I now see the hidden "Tables are bad?" content in the incomplete transcript notice! Cute! Ianrbibtitlht (talk) 04:33, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

We should clarify that it's the American Dennis and not the British one. There are differences, which I learned the hard way :( 172.69.43.184 06:48, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

I expanded (and moved to a Trivia section) the interesting facts of this coincidence. (And I didn't add this link there, but maybe it's of "not even Trivia" interest, so you can have it here instead.) 172.70.86.37 10:53, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

I'm really surprised that "regular slingshot" is "no" for spacecraft instead of something like "not yet". SystemParadox (talk) 09:46, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

There's definitely spring-type "delivery systems" (analogues of the elastic slingshots, arguably) which hasten the detatchment of items on a multi-launch 'racked' delivery system. There's also the (proposed, SFAIK not yet tried in anger) rotating-tether release system, akin to biblical sling(shot)s, that would actually be what the gravitational slingshot is most similar to by pure analogy.

If we ever get a space-elevator and 'drop' things off from the counterweight station, then that would effectively be a biblical slingshot on a planetary scale. (If we time the drop right, or very wrong, with a heavy enough load or even most of the counterweight itself, such that it ends up eventually impacting Earth or any other inhabited lump of rock, it could well also be a matter of a planetary slingshot with effects on a biblical scale!) 172.70.86.37 10:53, 5 September 2024 (UTC)