Imagine Getting Stuck In THIS Elevator

[ChickenHawk]

What I wanna know is, what happens if this elevator gets stuck? Are we gonna have space repair men fly out 32,000 miles to pull you out? We better get to work. We've only got 15 years.
This could be the most retarded idea ever... But what do I know. (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&u=/ap/20040625/ap_on_sc/space_elevator_3&printer=1)

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[gypsy]

That is fucking stupid.


This message was edited by gypsy on 6-25-04 @ 9:24 PM

[furie]

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[sr71blackbird]

Its not really all that crazy. Have you ever swung a pail full of water by the handle and the water stays inside as you spin it? Its basically the same concept. As the earth spins, the "rope" is extended up from the ground and up into space. The craft rides up the rope. Imagine the spinning pail again; this time, the pail has a rope attached to the handle. You begin letting rope out as you spin. The pail moves further away from you as you let line out. Imagine the pail as the thing your launching and you as the earth. The rope is the nanotubes that they are working on. They need a very strong rope. The nanotubes are made of carbon. Carbon (think diamonds)can be made into very strong stuff. The stealth bomber is made of carbon fibre composite material. This stuff will be many times stronger than steel, but far lighter.

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[Mike Teacher]

This stuff will be many times stronger than steel, but far lighter.


So is Nylon.

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[sr71blackbird]

This too

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[Tall_James]

Christ. Imagine having to listen to Muzak for that long of a ride. People would be scratching at the walls to get out. The deadly vacuum of infinite space would seem appealing.


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[sr71blackbird]

I had the idea once of building a chimney that went from the ground up to the top of the atmosphere and thought that the vacuum of space would suck air from the ground, up through the chimney and we could launch a satellite with a parachute. But after throwing the idea at some scientists, I found out that Earths gravity is what keeps the air held around the Earth and gravity would keep the air in the chimney at the same pressure, so it wouldnt work.

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[Doctor Manhattan]

This will just give Bin Laden a taller target.

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[furie]

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[Mike Teacher]

This will just give Bin Laden a taller target.


Sadly, given our technological inertia; Osama, and maybe the rest of us will be dead before this kind of thing happens.

If I get another Popular Science cover story on "Mach 7 Passenger Craft coming soon" or whatever the 'Bright Idea' is this month thats just 'five or ten years down the road' like theyve been saying for the last FIFTY, I'm gonna puke.

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