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Post by BadBeast on Aug 31, 2012 10:36:08 GMT -5
American crackpot inventors LithPort Group, are planning to build a space elevator to the Moon. myscienceacademy.org/2012/08/29/elevator-to-the-moon-to-become-reality-in-8-years/Using magic "ribbon cables", they estimate it will be up and running, in 8 years! The first step will be to "create a floating balloon platform tethered to the ground so that a robot can climb 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) into the sky". This ought to be interesting. But they said the Channel Tunnel was just a crazy pipe dream, and look at that now! Let's just hope the moon offers a more attractive proposition than France. |
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Post by StormInateacup on Aug 31, 2012 11:25:05 GMT -5
American crackpot inventors LithPort Group, are planning to build a space elevator to the Moon. myscienceacademy.org/2012/08/29/elevator-to-the-moon-to-become-reality-in-8-years/Using magic "ribbon cables", they estimate it will be up and running, in 8 years! The first step will be to "create a floating balloon platform tethered to the ground so that a robot can climb 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) into the sky". This ought to be interesting. But they said the Channel Tunnel was just a crazy pipe dream, and look at that now! Let's just hope the moon offers a more attractive proposition than France. Arthur C Clarke was a great advocate of this thing. NASA in fact have spent a great deal of time and money looking at it and there are a lot of people who feel that had it been undertaken earlier it would have saved a great deal of time and trouble and expense for the space programme. It's got to be built on the equator - does it say that in your link (I didn't click it. I couldn't be arsed).... |
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Post by kelly on Aug 31, 2012 14:32:31 GMT -5
American crackpot inventors LithPort Group, are planning to build a space elevator to the Moon. myscienceacademy.org/2012/08/29/elevator-to-the-moon-to-become-reality-in-8-years/Using magic "ribbon cables", they estimate it will be up and running, in 8 years! The first step will be to "create a floating balloon platform tethered to the ground so that a robot can climb 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) into the sky". This ought to be interesting. But they said the Channel Tunnel was just a crazy pipe dream, and look at that now! Let's just hope the moon offers a more attractive proposition than France. Sorry, LOVED this movie  |
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Post by BadBeast on Aug 31, 2012 15:52:35 GMT -5
If it was Willy Wonka making the proposals, it would be more credible.
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Post by Random Panther on Aug 31, 2012 18:36:56 GMT -5
The problem is finding a material with suficient tensile strength to remain thethered to the earth at one end and in geostationary orbit at t'other. There's a hilarious and at the same time fascinating piece on space elevators in The Science Of Discworld by Terry Pratchett,Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart.
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Post by The Mad Hatter on Aug 31, 2012 18:38:29 GMT -5
And then along came a...
hurricane.
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Post by dawnkeyfromuranus on Sept 3, 2012 19:50:26 GMT -5
And then along came a... hurricane.  Maybe they can send all the hungry people on earth up there. They will be so amazed by our technological capabilities they will forget about their swelling bellies. |
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Post by ayezatulbrite on Sept 3, 2012 22:55:50 GMT -5
yeah, there was a PhD guy at my uni who was working on that
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