Without involving maths, its fair to say it wouldn’t be unlike having it launched by an explosion.
The closest thing I can recall related to this concept would be Project HARP.
Whatever you’re launching would need to be capable of absorbing the unreal amount of G force and survive the resistance of the atmosphere. As you’ll be required to launch the spaceship at escape velocity with a delta of near 0.
I don’t believe rubber has the material strengths necessary to achieve that launch while still being able to store it on the face of the planet. So, imagine a ball of elastics the size of the sun and maybe there’s a chance because of the slow rate of acceleration achievable by not being on the earth any more.
Yeah I feel like this runs into the typical problem: you need so much rubber that the weight of the band itself is much much much higher than that of the rocket. So you need to add more rubber band for the rubber band, for which you need to add more rubber band again…
The same as why you can’t build infinitely high buildings. The materials are just to heavy compared to their strength
This feels like one of those xkcd questions.
Without involving maths, its fair to say it wouldn’t be unlike having it launched by an explosion.
The closest thing I can recall related to this concept would be Project HARP.
Whatever you’re launching would need to be capable of absorbing the unreal amount of G force and survive the resistance of the atmosphere. As you’ll be required to launch the spaceship at escape velocity with a delta of near 0.
I don’t believe rubber has the material strengths necessary to achieve that launch while still being able to store it on the face of the planet. So, imagine a ball of elastics the size of the sun and maybe there’s a chance because of the slow rate of acceleration achievable by not being on the earth any more.
Zackdfilms posted a very relevant short a couple days ago: https://youtube.com/shorts/_VbmAWhjUuE
Yeah I feel like this runs into the typical problem: you need so much rubber that the weight of the band itself is much much much higher than that of the rocket. So you need to add more rubber band for the rubber band, for which you need to add more rubber band again…
The same as why you can’t build infinitely high buildings. The materials are just to heavy compared to their strength