Space Travel As Secularist False Hope For Salvation

In article ,
(Eric Chomko) wrote:

: The lack of gravity is a complication. It still might be easier to
: just use the moon like a big catcher's mitt and fling the things down
: onto the Moon and then just use regular mining techniques and solar
: furnaces to smelt the stuff out.

: It's a pretty shallow gravity well to fling finished products back up
: out of.

This "flinging" is done exactly how? To use your baseball analogy, you
need to expound on the pitcher.

One possibility is a sort of rail gun.