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1 posted on 03/28/2017 12:36:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Is this Arthur c Clarke’s space elevator?


2 posted on 03/28/2017 12:38:38 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Sure, everyone wants a 500,000 ton muslim owned tower doing a figure 8 over their territory every day. LOL.


3 posted on 03/28/2017 12:40:01 PM PDT by Malsua
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All that expense just to get bedbugs and lice at a higher altitude.


4 posted on 03/28/2017 12:40:20 PM PDT by Rebelrage ("To crush your enemies -- See them driven, and to hear the lamentation of their women")
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Easy target. How can you miss?


5 posted on 03/28/2017 12:40:25 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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Building the big boys was my gig before ret. They always started out of a WIDE and DEEP hole dug out of the good old mother earth and went on up from there. This thing is a joke. Never happen. The Archies dreaming this thing up were on drugs for sure with this ‘brainstorm’


6 posted on 03/28/2017 12:44:11 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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7 posted on 03/28/2017 12:45:21 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan: http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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I don’t think it would work. And where is this asteroid?


8 posted on 03/28/2017 12:46:33 PM PDT by onedoug
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Who the hell thinks we can capture, and place in the desired orbit, said asteroid?


9 posted on 03/28/2017 12:46:35 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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Photo #1:

Penalty for non-payment of rent.


11 posted on 03/28/2017 12:47:28 PM PDT by dasboot (Kurt was so ahead of his time.)
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I think they can handle this, the website says the bottom of the tower will be suspended toward the “service of the earth”. They’ve got this.


14 posted on 03/28/2017 12:54:33 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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Lol they envisioned this futuristic plan, and they can’t have a heliport or something, you have to jump off with a parachute?


15 posted on 03/28/2017 12:56:11 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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Are they suggesting that Dubai be the site of the “anchor”.


17 posted on 03/28/2017 12:56:54 PM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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What a stupid idea.


19 posted on 03/28/2017 12:58:59 PM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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Like Magneto’s Asteroid M.


20 posted on 03/28/2017 12:59:25 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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Gee....what could possibly go wrong? /s


21 posted on 03/28/2017 1:00:08 PM PDT by nevergore
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"where the tower would move at its slowest speed at the top and bottom of the figure eight, allowing the possibility for the towers occupants to interface with the planet's surface at these points".

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?

22 posted on 03/28/2017 1:00:19 PM PDT by roadcat
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This tower is racist, black people hate hights.


26 posted on 03/28/2017 1:04:02 PM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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Just imaging some Jihadi driving an airplane into it.


27 posted on 03/28/2017 1:05:07 PM PDT by BuffaloJack ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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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.


36 posted on 03/28/2017 1:13:27 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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Internet stories like this are so ridiculously stupid they should cause cancer in the bones of the writers.


38 posted on 03/28/2017 1:14:33 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Make America America Again ))))
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