This doesn't seem like it would produce a particularly smooth ride.
(, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 10:47, Reply)
Have you ever watched the on-board footage of a Shuttle launch?
Riding a rocket is many things, but “smooth” isn’t one of them.
In this case though, the sheer inertia of the eight million tonnes of mass ought to go a long way towards damping the shocks.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 4 Feb 2021, 16:53,
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