Yeah, what if it thinks we're going to rape it for its resources and doesn't want to come along quietly?
Or the muslim scientists miscalculate that math thing?
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Posted on 03/28/2017 12:36:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Gee....what could possibly go wrong? /s
I'm wondering what happens if lots of the occupants all decide at the same time to go to the lowest point of the tower? Will it handle the load? Or will a section break off due to the extra mass?
Flying carpet.
They are devoting the top floors to “religious reliques”. I’m picturing a Shia/ Sunni / ISIS shoot out in space. Until the 377th Crusade arrives.
Bazinga!! Wonder what effect this would have on the tides.
This tower is racist, black people hate hights.
Just imaging some Jihadi driving an airplane into it.
This isn’t cool stuff, this is the hindenberg on steroids.
I remember Wright’s “mile high” skyscraper had a 1/4 mile deep foundation.
Regarding this structure. I think, with the right technology, it would be quite feasible - in 70-100 years. But it needs to be suspended by a rock in geosynchronous orbit. And in seven decades, we’d probably have no problem micro-adjusting the location of the asteroid to compensate for different occupation levels, weights, etc.
If it ever failed, though, it would be epic.
Yeah, what if it thinks we're going to rape it for its resources and doesn't want to come along quietly?
Or the muslim scientists miscalculate that math thing?
It would definitely need new technology, like actual graphene or similar material for much of the structure.
Their insurance will cover that, won’t it?
Variation on the concept. Space elevator is tethered at both ends; this thing forgoes the Earth-bound tether and hopes the hanging end stays within a very narrow tolerance range (lest it start smashing things up at high speed).
“Their insurance will cover that, won’t it?”
Probably a clause about punching a hole in the Earth’s crust...
In my humble, uneducated opinion, yes I agree. It’s a dumb idea. Why do I say dumb? Because there seems to be no pressing need for such a structure. Because the risks appear to outweigh the rewards. The main reward being ‘Bragging Rights’.
Zipping through the atmosphere at a thousand miles per hour there will be quite a bit of drag, so that 50000 km cable Wii become the world’s longest kite string. Then the drag should slow down the asteroid so it drops out of geosynchronous orbit. Hopefully they have a winch to shorten that cable or soon the bottom floors will be dragging on the ground.
“what if it thinks we’re going to rape it for its resources”
If we’re going to literally move an asteroid into Earth orbit, d@mn straight we’re going to rape it for its resources. Have you SEEN the stats on composition of those things? like...$100T in gold?
Internet stories like this are so ridiculously stupid they should cause cancer in the bones of the writers.
Fools and their money.
How many gays can they throw off the roof at once?
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