6. Ground laser targeting steam chamber on a rocket
7. Zoggin’ ’uge cannon
8. Make a super fast airplane that skips off the upper atmosphere on purpose
9. Plasma rocket
10. Fusion rocket
11. Rocket raft on the back of a tsunami
12. Tsunami crash redirection, launching with water pressure
13. Control system redirects normal waves, launching with water pressure
14. Use tsunami redirection to compress air, launching with air pressure
15. Control system redirects normal waves to compress air, launching with air pressure
16. Tornado drives a blower, launching with air pressure
17. Huge vortex engine to create a stable atmospheric column for simpler launch
18. Vortex engine drives a blower, launching with air pressure
19. Ride (or surf) the vortex engine upwards
20. Ride (or surf) a natural tornado upwards
21. Rube Goldberg launch
The Rube Goldberg launch became a style of idea generation that produced a crapton of ideas in short order. The basic idea is that NASA launches use stages, where they get off the ground with one chemical fuel tank, drop that one and then escape the atmosphere with secondary fuel tanks. I reasoned that some of the ideas I had could work as a stage rather than as the whole shebang, like the atmospheric skipping one. I wrote about 45 of these before deciding writing it all out was stupid and hard to read, so here are the components of the Rube Goldberg Launch:
1. Gyro arm in the Grand Canyon
2. Chemical Rockets
3. Laser-heated steam rockets
4. Steam catapult like in aircraft carriers
5. Sonic resonance saucer
6. Ground laser targeting steam chamber on a rocket
7. Zoggin’ ’uge cannon
8. Make a super fast airplane that skips off the upper atmosphere on purpose
9. Plasma rocket
10. Fusion rocket
11. Rocket raft on the back of a tsunami
12. Tsunami crash redirection, launching with water pressure
13. Control system redirects normal waves, launching with water pressure
14. Use tsunami redirection to compress air, launching with air pressure
15. Control system redirects normal waves to compress air, launching with air pressure
16. Tornado drives a blower, launching with air pressure
17. Huge vortex engine to create a stable atmospheric column for simpler launch
18. Vortex engine drives a blower, launching with air pressure
19. Ride (or surf) the vortex engine upwards
20. Ride (or surf) a natural tornado upwards
21. Rube Goldberg launch
The Rube Goldberg launch became a style of idea generation that produced a crapton of ideas in short order. The basic idea is that NASA launches use stages, where they get off the ground with one chemical fuel tank, drop that one and then escape the atmosphere with secondary fuel tanks. I reasoned that some of the ideas I had could work as a stage rather than as the whole shebang, like the atmospheric skipping one. I wrote about 45 of these before deciding writing it all out was stupid and hard to read, so here are the components of the Rube Goldberg Launch:
Launch Set[13]: steam catapult, gyro arm, zoggin’ ’uge cannon, chem rocket, plasma rocket, fusion rocket, laser-steam, ground laser, sonic resonance, wave pressure (water), wave pressure (air), vortex blower, vortex surf
Staging Set[8]: chem rocket, plasma rocket, fusion rocket, laser-steam, ground laser, sonic resonance, big glider, atmospheric balloon
Escape Set[6]: chem rocket, plasma rocket, fusion rocket, laser-steam, ground laser, atmospheric skipping
Combining these gives 13x8x6=624 ideas, which puts me over the hump.
Lots of good stuff (I though so #17 was quite neat).
Though you lose a point for the combinatorial hack. Let’s see if you can do all 50 next time!