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Alex Davy
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Hi, I'm just a kid so don't judge, but I had a weird thought when I read something about pulleys (don't ask) and I thought of something. In theory you could send spacecraft to your destination, before any human travel needed to happen, via autonomous spacecraft . These would act as the structures for a pulley (on a vast scale), or assemble a pulley. Instead of traditional chemical propulsion, the 'pulley' would act as a form of physical propulsion and pull new aircraft towards the end. This could mean that you could send multiple ships at a time, because of there being virtually no drag in space. The reason I believe that this could be revolutionary is that with enough time, it could theoretically be possible to complete interstellar travel on our current technological level to other stars. Additionally, as you probably know, the more pulleys and the better the arrangement of the pulleys, the easier things are to pull any direction (depending on perspective). I propose that this kind of system could be used with something pulling a a strong fibre from the solar system and the arrangement of pulleys resulting in the craft being pulled towards its destination.
I kind of wrote quite weirdly but I hope you people understand.
I kind of wrote quite weirdly but I hope you people understand.