We don't need no stinkin' cable car to space!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.
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.
Which works out to about 740 miles per hour for the weekly round trip.
Has anyone seen how they deal with coriolis acceleration?
They act as if it doesn't exist.
What goes up must come down!
That first 100 tons is going to require 100 tons be brought down at the same time; otherwise the center of mass doesn't stay in orbit.
It's so much fun to watch these promoters fight over your tax dollars. Next they'll be asking us to help pay for new car designs that don't save energy, the earth, or money .... oh, that's right they already do!
Are they putting parachutes on that 100 tons? I'd hate to be under the falling load if the cable snapped! Of course, I trust that they will have thought of that...
We don't need no stinkin' cable car to space!
Space-elevator tether climbs a mile high
New Scientist | 2/15/2006 | Kimm Groshong
Posted on 02/15/2006 10:24:11 AM PST by Neville72
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