"Space elevator!" Topic
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| Winston Smith | 02 Oct 2018 2:35 p.m. PST |
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| Karellian Knight | 02 Oct 2018 4:22 p.m. PST |
I remember reading an Arthur C Clark book about that when I was a teenager. Amazing to think it could soon come true. |
| goragrad | 02 Oct 2018 10:04 p.m. PST |
The idea has been around for a long time. Be interesting to see it implemented. Of course if the Chinese do it in 2045 that would make me 91… |
ScottWashburn  | 03 Oct 2018 4:42 a.m. PST |
I'd be 90 :( But if they could really take stuff up there for $25 USD a pound then I could afford to go (glad I lost 25 pounds with my low-carb diet :) ) |
| gladue | 03 Oct 2018 10:32 a.m. PST |
They haven't managed to make an inch of a cable able to take that kind of strain, and they're going to make a foolproof multi-thousand mile reel of it by 2045? No. That will not happen in anything like that timeframe. 2145 maybe. They'll have a working fusion generator first, and that has been "30 years off" for the last 50 years. |
| Old Contemptibles | 04 Oct 2018 1:07 p.m. PST |
I read about it in Clarke's "3001: The Final Odyssey" the idea has been around longer than that. |
| ScottWashburn | 04 Oct 2018 4:07 p.m. PST |
As mentioned in the article, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposed the idea in 1895. It's been around for a while. |
Gunfreak  | 05 Oct 2018 3:57 a.m. PST |
How hard can it be, you first send up a big bullseye in orbit, then you take a giant crossbow and fire at the bullseye with a fire attached. Then you just hook up an elevator and it's done. |
 Parzival | 05 Oct 2018 6:35 a.m. PST |
"Floor One Thousand Six Hundred And Eighty-Seven— Nuclear Fusion Development Lab and Ladies Lingerie." 
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| Martin From Canada | 06 Oct 2018 9:19 p.m. PST |
If I see Michio Kaku quoted in an article, and it's not about string theory, my bs meter starts going off the chart doubly so if it pertains to nuclear fearmongering or space exploration cheer-leading. |
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goes to sea with the Terrain Mat.