Kevin Knuth

Except at this point, I don't think it's nonsensical.

So the payoff's huge, right?

I have no idea.

They're very strange in a lot of ways.

First, the...

How many ways are they strange, right?

The speeds and accelerations are crazy, right?

The accelerations, nobody's going to survive that.

So the equipment isn't going to survive it.

So, you know, in the Nimitz case, we estimated the acceleration of the Tic Tac dropping from 28,000 feet to sea level in 0.75 seconds or so, 0.78 seconds, right?

It's about 5,000 Gs of acceleration minimum, right?

5,000 Gs is insane.

The new F-35 fighter jets, their wings rip off at 13 Gs.

You know, most missile frames can't handle more than a, a missile can't maneuver at more than about 35 Gs.

And the frame isn't going to survive more than 60 Gs.

And now you've got this Tic Tac thing accelerating at 5,000 Gs.

That's not possible.

I mean, equipment won't survive.

So now this leads you to think the only solutions there is you've got to be playing with inertia somehow.

You've got to be playing with gravity somehow.