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Rethinking Tomorrow Vision Statement for the Blog

Rethinking tomorrow... www.rethinking–tomorrow.com This website is all about new ideas and ideas that are not really in circulation that aren't new about important technologies and alternative futures, focused on technological visions rather than social visions. I am the founder, Roger Faulkner, and I am a scientist and inventor. I do not mean for this website to only post my inventions, but as a first step I am posting ideas that I have, including patentable inventions. Many of these inventions were patent pending in the past, but I did not have the money to pursue patents after the provisionals ran out. I have ALS, and that motivates me to get these ideas out there into the world. I am no fool about the possibility that some of my ideas might be very valuable, so in some cases, I file a US provisional patent before posting to this website. In those instances, it's not that I am placing High Hopes on getting rich, but rather avoiding the possibility that someone makes a

Method to launch large rockets using a mortar launch

Update, September 14 2018 Thank you Keith for that comment. I am placingThis entire emailAs a comment in my own blog.Please please pleaseAnyone reading this…Comment on my blog post that is the best way to help meGive me a chance to answer your questions as I have this one below. Roger Faulkner, personal account cell phone #: +1 704-773-8384 On Wednesday, September 12, 2018, 1:17:14 PM EDT, Keith Klipstein <keithklipstein@gmail.com> wrote: As I began reading your blog on Rocket to Mars I couldn’t help but thing a Long Rail Gun might be simpler.. The capital required for an electromagnetic launch would be vastly greater Then what would be needed for a mortar launch tube to be drilled into the Earth with a total boring machine. T boring machines have previously been used to create ICBM tunnels.  muzzle velocityExitingThe end of the tunnelDepends strongly on the average acceleration and also the length of the tunnel. the capital required for a mor