Huge 'launch ring' to fling satellites into orbit - space - 03 October

Someday, people will look back on this time and think, wow, our ancestors wanted to get into space SO BADLY, they strapped a giant BOMB on their rear-ends and rode it!

Were they CRAZY!?!

Here is one of several SANE ways:

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn10180-huge-launch-ring-to-fling-satellites-into-orbit.html