Posted on 02/15/2006 7:54:40 PM PST by FARS
I have completed 90% of the time machine I am building... It's all there, mostly, just a pesky 10% left that involves presently nonexistent materials, unachievable energies, and other unstudied physical principles that have never been described in any way.
Thank you. What was the posting picture bit? I'm new.
--I'm not sure either--
Why use "ultra-strong carbon" when you can use MEGA-ultra strong carbon instead? Fools.
"... and to have solar-powered lifters carry 100 tonnes of cargo into space once a week, 50 times a year."
I guess they have taken into account some dramatic acceleration in the earth's solar orbit due to the effects of this space elevator (THE space elevator- the one that will be built real soon... that one), which will force us to change our calander system to only 50 weeks a year, instead of the absurd 52-week pattern that we currently follow.
It's good to plan ahead like that.
Your humor is instructive.
This is not like that at all. This is based on well known physics, and at on theoretically possible materials. Currently nonexistent it's true. But if you don't try to make them existent, they never will be.
Which works out to about 740 miles per hour for the weekly round trip.
Doesn't that missing 10% make it hard to decide what color to make it?
Only 370. You don't need to wait for the return basket to send the next one up. In fact, it helps reduce weight if it works like a dumb waiter.
90%? I figure, "1 down, 61,999 to go."
You hit the LIGHTNING nail on the head. The electrical capacitance between the earth and ionosphere is 400,000 volts with an average discharge rate, via lightning, of 1800 Amps. You puncture that capacitor with ANYTHING solid and you've shorted out that giant capacitor, the ENTIRE WORLD'S WEATHER changes when you remove that 50V/meter electro-gradient from the atmosphere. I've been in contact with liftport for a few months now, telling them to forget pie-in-the-sky space elevators and make useful LOWER atmospheric applications, all the governments of the world will STOMP on them asap if they screw up the entire world's weather just to get mass to LEO cheaper...by shorting out the GIANT CAPACITOR of the earth-ionosphere.
My thoughts exactly.
you may not need a laser to push the robot to the top. All the megajoules coming down may provide a cute source of energy.
7.2 x 10^9 watts coming out of that filament, right?
It would make more sense to tap that power for a rail gun and launch a few tons of cargo into space every few minutes.
Noisy proposition that would be...
But if you put a HUGE Leyden jar at the bottom, and route that to...and then cross connect to...FREE ENERGY, right to the meter!
As an ADDED bonus, no more Global Warming...unless it heats up even quicker.
Has anyone seen how they deal with coriolis acceleration?
They act as if it doesn't exist.
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