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And in order to spin up to nearly 1000 miles an hour today, this entire chamber needs to be a near vacuum, and that's why we can hardly hear anything. system is supersonic. if this were full of air, we would get a sonic boom on every single revolution. you can hear a little bit. can you hear it? just a little bit? a little bit of vibration, too. arming system. here we go. so he's doing the launch sequence now. ten. nine, here we go. seven, six, five, four, three, two, one... launching. whoa! that was it. applause. yeah! decelerating system. in my mind, this has gone from nonsense to plausible ...

And a 12m arm here in long beach, california. and i've been invited to witness a test launch first—hand. now, the 12m accelerator won't be launching into the air. this much smaller projectile will be fired down a tube and straight into a steel plate. what happens to this after it's launched from that? so this mostly turns to dust as it hits the end of the tunnel. oh, my gosh. dramatic music now, where were we? oh, yeah! 500 miles an hour. so, now you're going about as fast as a jet. the actual projectiles and the spinning arm are made of carbon fibre — pretty much the only substance that c...

..seven, six, five, four, three, two, one... launching. whoa! that was it. applause yeah! decelerating system. in my mind, this has gone from nonsense to plausible in the space of a few hours. and in october last year, the first test launch in new mexico proved that the carbon fibre dart could not only launch, but also survive a landing in which it buried itself in the desert. i mean, at some point, that was going supersonic straight towards us. yeah! and then it went round. and then it came towards us again. multiple times per second. oh, wow. yeah, multiple times per second. thank you for le...

System is supersonic. if this were full of air, we would get a sonic boom on every single revolution. you can hear a little bit. can you hear it? just a little bit? a little bit of vibration, too. arming system. here we go. so he's doing the launch sequence now. ten. nine, here we go. seven, six, five, four, three, two, one... launching. whoa! that was it. applause. yeah! decelerating system. in my mind, this has gone from nonsense to plausible in the space of a few hours. and in october last year, the first test launch in new mexico proved that the carbon fibre dart could not only launch, but...

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