SpinLaunch has been working on something like this for a few years.
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Sure, “rockets”.
It’s true, China doesn’t have rockets. The Tiangong space station was launched into space purely with the concussive force of Xi Jinping fucking your mom.
They’re copying the NASA model where they thinly mask their military research as science, but you’re not smart enough to see that.
ICBMs already exist. Why the fuck would they add a huge, easily spotted, immobile railroad to that.
Meanwhile in the west, Elon Musk is blowing up launch pads because he fancies himself to be a rocket engineer.
There is no space race lol china is the only one actually doing anything