Oddly enough, I just finished a Bruce Sterling novel (The Carytids) that had giant slingshots attached to mountains to send things into orbit as a minor plot point, so don't let the man get you down. Build it!
It also had an application of augmented reality, which is a great thing to look into, especially for graphic designers and artists. Last I heard, you setup a small server and a wireless access point, and it sends out information to devices set to receive such things (goggles, smart phones, etc.), and puts overlay information on the real world. You could do virtual graffti/galleries, travel info, high tech hobo signs, etc. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality)
Because anything that touches "nuclear" makes peoples brains go weird and they go all ultra-NIMBY.
Launch vehicles do occasionally blow up during launch, and thanks to Challenger, that's the first and mostly likely possibility to enter the public's mind if you so much as think out loud about launching waste and garbage into space.
well, the current cost of approximately $10,000 per pound to get something into low earth orbit. then you have to have to get it out of earth orbit and into a solar orbit that will take it into the sun. I don't have those numbers on the top of my head. Then you add in that the transuranics are heavy metals. Only slightly lower in density than lead. This is a lotta pounds
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It also had an application of augmented reality, which is a great thing to look into, especially for graphic designers and artists. Last I heard, you setup a small server and a wireless access point, and it sends out information to devices set to receive such things (goggles, smart phones, etc.), and puts overlay information on the real world. You could do virtual graffti/galleries, travel info, high tech hobo signs, etc. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality)
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Launch vehicles do occasionally blow up during launch, and thanks to Challenger, that's the first and mostly likely possibility to enter the public's mind if you so much as think out loud about launching waste and garbage into space.
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