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Subject: Slingshot builders, unite!

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The moment I heard the news about Bungie going independent, I immediately thought of Step 6. Unfortunately, Bungie beat me to it because I was too busy playing Halo 3.

So.. Anyone know exactly HOW we go about building one of these slingshot things? >_>

  • 10.07.2007 10:24 AM PDT

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  • 10.07.2007 10:43 AM PDT
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Uh... I'll work on a design. Maybe I'll find something a bit better, but in the meantime, you start collecting the material.

  • 10.07.2007 10:43 AM PDT

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I say we tie an enormous elastic band to the Space Needle. Attach some folding chairs to the other end of the band and get seven gorillas to pull the band to China. Once they let go, we'll never see those people again....

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Posted by: Recon Number 54
I think that perhaps a slingshot might be a descriptive term and not a literal one.

For example, a very large trebuchet could work. But most people would stumble over the pronunciation and the project could fail.

Or perhaps an orbital tether.

"Come see the Bungie Skyhook" invitations could be sent to those on "the list"..... They wouldn't even need to pack a toothbrush.


I've done a bit of looking. Could this fit our criteria? While not in the classic design, it does have the benefit of still fitting under the term "slingshot".

  • 10.07.2007 1:05 PM PDT

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Well we'll need to obtain large amounts of surgical tubing and build a massive tower. After that is done we will round up all of the people who are "invited" to the party and they'll be put into a large ball shaped object. Then roll it onto the launching grounds and sit back and hail Bungie for their splendor. HAIL!

  • 10.07.2007 2:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Mass drivers are a possible heavy lift solution... they are currently out of favor due to low potential payloads, high energy consumption and the fact that whatever object is launched still needs to handle the stress of high-velocity departure from low atmospheric levels.

The air at ground level is enough to really put a damper on an object being expelled from a mass driver. It would be a good launch system on the Moon. But not as good here.


What about a large scale crossbow? Just pack a few people down a shute, crank the bow back with a machine, and let loose.

Plus crossbows are just downright neat looking, especially one that would be 500ft in size.

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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Or perhaps an orbital tether.


In mombasa, obviously.

[Edited on 10.07.2007 3:50 PM PDT]

  • 10.07.2007 3:49 PM PDT

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These are fantastic ideas! A few problems. A trebuwhatever, for example, is not only hard to pronounce, I believe it also launches things almost horizontal until they fall. So, if we're trying to launch someone into a cliff-face, that would work.

Recon, you have to be more orthodox. Slingshot means Slingshot.

Don't go twisting the written words around.

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  • 10.08.2007 6:19 AM PDT
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I said it before and I’ll say it again:

If a bloody coup does not actually involve someone dying, then it’s not a bloody coup. If the best they can do with Step 6 is prick some people with needles and leave Bungie, I have very serious reservations as to whether they can truly take over the world, much less that they could build a giant slingshot and hurl people into the sun.

I am going to need to see, at minimum, one dead person on either side of the break-up (Microsoft and Bungie), and one seriously injured Microsoft official before I take this World Domination plot seriously again.

  • 10.08.2007 8:18 AM PDT

Some people say a slingshot big enough to hurl our enemies into the sun can't be done. Just tell that to this poor feller.*

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Posted by: Recon Number 54
The trick to having a bloody coup and not being ousted shortly thereafter is all about being able to hide the bodies and clean up the bloodstains.

None of us are at Bungie Studios or MS Corp. but I would wager that there are a few conference rooms where the contract negotiations took place.... Rooms that smell of bleach. And the faint scent of gore.


When the employee rosters show a few "terminated" workers, I'll believe it.

  • 10.08.2007 8:34 AM PDT

I always imagined the slingshot would work like this except bigger and wouldn't hold the person in.

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Posted by: RedPhoenix 57
I always imagined the slingshot would work like this except bigger and wouldn't hold the person in.

The actual slingshot will be pulled backwards by four locomotives.

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  • 10.08.2007 10:01 AM PDT

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Reading a couple of these, I think I've come up with an adequate solution.

The first step is to catch an asteroid and place it in geosynchronus orbit. Then, building a tether to a floating platform in the Pacific of high-tensile nanocarbon threads, we build some sort of space elevator.

From this point, the "selectees" are ferried to the moon. On the satellite, a large-scale coil gun is erected, as well as a solar array to power the device. This has several advantages. Considerably less power is needed, as the moon has one sixth of the gravity of Earth, and with no atmosphere, there is virtually no air resistance to overcome. The cold of space also aids in cooling, allowing for a greater rate of fire.

Ferrite ore mined from the lunar surface is smelted and cast into pods capable of fitting at least one person. After personal belongings (money/gold/valuables, especially, to help cover costs of the ambitious project) are confiscated, they are loaded into the chamber, given a bottle of water and some chinese food from step 4 (to prolong experience on both ends), and the pod is sealed.

A pneumatic ram loads the projectile, the capaciter farm is charged, and the MAC is fired with a trajectory towards the sun.

Eventually, this process can be automated for efficiency, although we'd likely run out of enemies by then. With a lot of cooperation and hard work, we can do this...together!

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I've got it!

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He keeps forgetting-

SLINGSHOT

stop with these fancy gadgets, you just need enough tension.

Its all about the tension.

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Looks like you guys have the slingshot issue covered.... but now comes a more pressing problem. Who are our enemies? And would everybody prefer that we trick them into our slingshot or just shove them in via brute force, using the Septagon's notorious henchmen?

  • 10.08.2007 10:31 AM PDT
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prototype 1

  • 10.08.2007 10:40 AM PDT

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Posted by: x Foman123 x
Looks like you guys have the slingshot issue covered.... but now comes a more pressing problem. Who are our enemies? And would everybody prefer that we trick them into our slingshot or just shove them in via brute force, using the Septagon's notorious henchmen?


I don't know... Brute force reminds me of that terrible game that came out 6 years ago.

  • 10.08.2007 10:49 AM PDT

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