To: SouthernFreebird
The unit only weighs 7 tons but can carry several people
and 13 tons of cargo for a trip of several days duration?
Not possible.
9 posted on
09/25/2005 4:38:02 PM PDT by
tet68
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To: tet68
Not possible.
You sure?
"In one experiment, a sheet of nanotubes one-thousandth the thickness of a human hair could support 50,000 times its own mass."
To: tet68
The unit only weighs 7 tons but can carry several people and 13 tons of cargo for a trip of several days duration? I see another problem as well..
See post #4.. Lower right corner..
The orbital anchor is 600 tons..
The Nano-tube ribbon weighs 800 tons..
I don't think the laws of gravity will allow for this..
39 posted on
09/26/2005 2:20:23 AM PDT by
Drammach
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To: tet68
The real problem with the space elevator isn't mass, it's time. You can't send people up on it -- it takes too long to traverse the radiation belts. You can send up cargo, but if you want to go with your payload, you'll still have to ride up to space on a rocket. If we don't eliminate rockets with the elevator, it loses a lot of it's appeal.
48 posted on
09/29/2005 4:49:13 AM PDT by
Cincinatus
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