Seriously... the Space Elevator!

DeepIron · 10-03-08, 05:28 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe...tor/index.html

It's about friggin' time they got serious about this!

Wolfehunter · 10-03-08, 05:41 PM

What will happen if you get stuck in the elevator? :hmm:

With a Hot chick half way to the station?

Oh the madness..:rotfl:

longam · 10-03-08, 05:43 PM

This reminds me of reading those popular science magazines...

Digital_Trucker · 10-03-08, 05:45 PM

And if the cable breaks halfway up?:p

Wolfehunter · 10-03-08, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

And if the cable breaks halfway up?:p

Which way do you fall up or down? hmmmm:hmm:

Digital_Trucker · 10-03-08, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolfehunter

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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

And if the cable breaks halfway up?:p

Which way do you fall up or down? hmmmm:hmm:

Good question:hmm: Maybe you don't fall? You just sit there waiting for the repair person:rotfl:

Task Force · 10-03-08, 06:22 PM

I can see it now.

Person a: D** we just got stuck in the elevator, It cant take long for a repair man to get here.

Person b: I dont know about that, there slow enough in my three story apartment.

Three days later, both people are starting to go crazy from dehydration and hunger.

Person A: do you hear that!

Person B: yes I do I think its that repair man, It took him long enough!

Repar man: You mean I came up here for just this, Its just a spring.

SUBMAN1 · 10-08-08, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

And if the cable breaks halfway up?:p

A carbon nanotube breaking that was built by nanobots. Hahahahaha! Try it. Not gonna happen.

-S

10-08-08, 11:41 PM

Not a pressing need?

What if we are invaded by aliens! :p

TLAM Strike · 10-10-08, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Rilder

Not a pressing need?

What if we are invaded by aliens! :p

Or not as bad but more probable what if China builds one first and starts throwing rocks.

Go read "The moon in a harsh mistress" by Robert Heinlein if you don't get the "Throwing Rocks" refrence.

So what if a space elevator is expensive. Nearly anything with a major benifit to socity is expensive. As the prevously mentioned Robert Heinlein put it TANSTAAFL.

Rockin Robbins · 10-10-08, 02:22 PM

Why is everyone considering that government would be doing this? Government doesn't advance society, private enterprise does. There wasn't a government on earth pursuing the hybrid automobile, the best antipollution and energy efficiency automobile propulsion so far. The ones who give us the change we seek and who "save the world" will be the evil corporations governments seek to punish.

If a major corporation decides a space elevator makes economic sense, no power on earth will stop it. Postulating some false "choice" between the space elevator and some irrelevent environmental concern, no matter how valid, is ridiculous. We are perfectly capable of saving some trees (are there any left in Europe?), building space elevators and going to Disney World too.

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Task Force Rear Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPACE!!!! Posts: 10,142 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I can see it now. Person a: D** we just got stuck in the elevator, It cant take long for a repair man to get here. Person b: I dont know about that, there slow enough in my three story apartment. Three days later, both people are starting to go crazy from dehydration and hunger. Person A: do you hear that! Person B: yes I do I think its that repair man, It took him long enough! Repar man: You mean I came up here for just this, Its just a spring. __________________ Task Force industries "Taking control of the world, one mind at a time"

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Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	Why is everyone considering that government would be doing this? Government doesn't advance society, private enterprise does. There wasn't a government on earth pursuing the hybrid automobile, the best antipollution and energy efficiency automobile propulsion so far. The ones who give us the change we seek and who "save the world" will be the evil corporations governments seek to punish. If a major corporation decides a space elevator makes economic sense, no power on earth will stop it. Postulating some false "choice" between the space elevator and some irrelevent environmental concern, no matter how valid, is ridiculous. We are perfectly capable of saving some trees (are there any left in Europe?), building space elevators and going to Disney World too. __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

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longam Admiral Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,014 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	This reminds me of reading those popular science magazines...

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