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To: nickcarraway
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.)
To: nickcarraway
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
To: nickcarraway
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")
To: nickcarraway
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!)
To: nickcarraway
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!)
To: nickcarraway
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)
To: nickcarraway
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
To: nickcarraway
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.)
To: nickcarraway
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.)
To: nickcarraway
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.)
To: nickcarraway
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.)
To: nickcarraway
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!)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
Like Magneto’s Asteroid M.
To: nickcarraway
Gee....what could possibly go wrong? /s
To: nickcarraway
"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
To: nickcarraway
This tower is racist, black people hate hights.
To: nickcarraway
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)
To: nickcarraway
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)
To: nickcarraway
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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