Re: Human Launcher - Your Tax Dollars at Work

Bill Bonde ('The path is clear, though no eyes can see') wrote:


Jeffrey Turner wrote:

http://www.lot49.com/2006/05/human_launcher.shtml

Human Launcher

The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has
filed a patent for "a controllable launcher for propelling a
payload through a predictable and repeatable trajectory to a
desired height." The invention is, in other words, a human
launcher, or a ladder for the lazy — the patent claims the
device will be able to put a person atop a 5-story building in
less than 2 seconds. A force called "gravity" is currently being
investigated as a way to reverse the effects of rapid elevation.


If you aren't going to use any ropes or nothing, a predictable
trajectory is desirable. More tax money needs to be spent to get that
right.

Thanks, Bill, it's nice to know someone reads my postings.

--Jeff

--
It is only those who have neither
fired a shot nor heard the shrieks
and groans of the wounded who cry
aloud for blood, more vengeance, more
desolation. War is hell.
--William Tecumseh Sherman
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