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Votey

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Perhaps the most elegant proposal for non-rocket space launch is the so-called

Space fountain."

The idea is to use a system

Of accelerated pellets

Moving past a large space station, in order to create an enormous

Two-dimensional

Sky-boner.

The station magnetically harvests kinetic energy from the pellets, so as to keep itself aloft in the manner you would expect from the tip of a gigantic space-dong,

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The remaining harvesteo energy will be used to move the pellets around the station, then rapidly fire them down, where they hurtle into a lower chamber that serves to re-accelerate the pellets and to look like the balls of a titanic

Cosmo-schlong

Once the pellets are cycling, payloads can be borne up by their kinetic energy, reaching such high speeds that they mav be spewed onto the man in the moon or the mons of venus, as one would expect from a gargantuan astro-dick.

Incidental to the process, we expect this system to cut launch costs by 99% allowing mankind to fulfill our destiny of

Question: How in the world do you expect to receive

Funding?

Blah blah blah et cetera.

We believe that elon musk will telepathically detect

One billion is fine, sir. Yes, we can strap one to mars.

A proposal for a

Colossal galacto-c

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Yes, sir, substantially larger than a rocket

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