Points For Tryin'

You know what they say: two rails are better than one.  But is that actually true?  Today, we take a spin through the world of gyroscopically-stabilized trains.
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Sources:
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2021/05/brennans-gyro-monorail.htmlhttps://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co27065/brennans-gyroscopic-mono-rail-car-model-gyroscopic-mono-railcarhttps://www.midnight-trains.com/post/on-board-louis-brennans-gyroscopic-monorailhttps://web.archive.org/web/20221208184234/https://www.monocab-owl.de/das-projekt/https://hackaday.com/2019/12/05/retrotechtacular-the-gyro-x/https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/the-future-is-now-so-where-is-my-gyro-car/https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/gyro-x-1967/

It's known for tires and blimps, but there's an alternate timeline where Goodyear is the go-to company if you want to buy a space station or a rocket plane.  Let us take you through that alternate timeline.
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Sources:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Inflatable_Structures_in_Space/zqQqAAAAMAAJhttps://books.google.com/books?id=PS0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA124https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/science/space/08space.html

What did the 1950's think the future would be like?  According to illustrator Frank Tinsley, it would be filled with water cannons, space rockets, and giant vegetables. 

A companion to Episode 14, a full reading of Robert Goddard's short story "The High Speed Bet".
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Ep. 14 - Vacuum Trains: The Hyperloop from 1904
Airless tunnels?  Check.  Magnetically-levitated trains?  Check.  Promises of insanely-fast travel?  Also check.  But this isn't Elon Musk's Hyperloop, Alfred Beach and Robert Goddard had him beat by over a hundred years.
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transithttps://untappedcities.com/2020/04/20/nycs-first-subway-a-one-block-pneumatic-tunnel-below-broadway/https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/beach-pneumatic-transit-the-1870-subway-that-could-have-beenhttps://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit
https://gizmodo.com/the-scifi-story-robert-h-goddard-published-100-years-a-1494959842https://web.wpi.edu/Images/CMS/Goddard/goddard-high-speed-train.pdfhttps://patents.google.com/patent/US2511979A/en

What if you could get to space, WIHOUT using any rockets?  (Or in the case of SpinLaunch, a much smaller rocket than usual?  That's what we're looking at today.
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaellaine/space-elevator-science-climb-to-the-sky-a-tetheredhttps://www.liftport.com/https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/ast07sep_1/https://space.nss.org/wp-content/uploads/2000-Space-Elevator-NASA-CP210429.pdf
https://www.spinlaunch.com/https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2019164472A1/enhttps://spacenews.com/spinlaunch-conducts-first-test-of-suborbital-accelerator-at-spaceport-america/

Happy April Everyone!
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This episode is all about the internet's favorite food: BACON!  Lean more about the first attempt at instant-bacon, and turkey bacon's older brother.
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This episode looks at some UFO-centric ideas.  Like the time a Canadian company designed a flying saucer for the Air Force, and the REAL project behind the Roswell alien story.
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This episode we look at your comments and ideas!  Keep them coming at pointsfortryinchannel@gmail.com
 
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