Length of Shower: 11 min --I’m not a rocket scientist (Big surprise, I know!), but I think I have an idea for how to propel rockets into space that maybe they haven’t tried yet. What about using gravity and momentum to help? Am I crazy here? It seems like if they were to build a platform like 50 or 100 stories off the ground and then a large tube in a huge “U” shape with rocket booster explosions on one side; that could work. Then you send the rocket down the slick tube and by the time it got to the other side, the "up" side, of the “U” shape it would already have enough momentum from the drop that the energy it would take to push it would be a lot less than they are using now. See? Use gravity, like on those hot wheels tracks you got as a kid and you had to attach it to a table and send the cars racing down the track and off a ramp at the end. Same basic concept, except you would need timed explosions on the end of the ramp aimed straight up to give it that extra push. But still, it seems like it would save NASA some energy costs because you wouldn’t need as powerful of an explosion to get the rocket started, gravity and momentum would take care of that for you. But again, I’m not a rocket scientist, so what do I know?
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