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Need opinions and guidance building a space elevator.
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It's not that hard. If you know math and geometry. And physics. And chemistry. Peice of cake.Do the maths?....Are you mad???........
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Because we still don't have our flying cars and we still don't have our space elevator and anyway it's time.
Hope not...I must be one of the only Englishmen alive that can't stand the bloody things.....
Hope not...I must be one of the only Englishmen alive that can't stand the bloody things.....
Man I love them things more than my luggage
QUOTE="Fat Freddy, post: 20828283, member: 290134"]Tea Time???
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I love tea time..
When I was stationed at RAF Wethersfield, I lived a couple of miles away, in Finchingfield - "The Most Picturesque Village In England" (officially, too!) I lived in an apartment in that building behind the big bush in the first picture. Don't remember it being that big, though... There was a wonderful tea shop there (second picture; path up the hill's a dead giveaway where it was); most excellent scones and the best strawberry jam I ever ate in my life. No Jaffa cakes, though (yeah, I like 'em, too). VERY hard to get in there on the weekends, though. Hordes of tourists when the weather was nice. Hard to find a place to park, too...
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I love tea time.. When I was stationed at RAF Wethersfield, I lived a couple of miles away, in Finchingfield - "The Most Picturesque Village In England" (officially, too!) I lived in an apartment in that building behind the big bush in the first picture. Don't remember it being that big, though... There was a wonderful tea shop there (second picture; path up the hill's a dead giveaway where it was); most excellent scones and the best strawberry jam I ever ate in my life. No Jaffa cakes, though (yeah, I like 'em, too). VERY hard to get in there on the weekends, though. Hordes of tourists when the weather was nice. Hard to find a place to park, too...
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How am I just hearing about this now? OP is talking about naysayers and such, what about people that don't know?
Also, wouldn't it be a healthier option just to take the stairs?
Also, wouldn't it be a healthier option just to take the stairs?
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Space elevators have been speculated about by sci-fi writers for years. From what I can tell, it's the materials necessary to build it that are holding it back. Tensile strength considerations etc. Would be anchored at/near the equator on one end and a geo-synchronous satellite at the other @22,000 miles up. Arthur C. Clarke and Kim Stanley Robinson are two authors I can think of off the top of my head that have written about them.
Didn't Clark (or some sci-fi author) get credit for coming up with the idea? Geo-synch orbits are still sometimes called "Clark orbits", after all.
I HATE riding on elevators. Mostly I take the stairs, but obviously, if it's a skyscraper, you're stuck, right? An elevator all the way to space???? Sounds like my very worst nightmare. No I say. I am voting NO.
Well you can take the stairs, but it's a long climb - gets easier as you go though, keep getting lighter until you're weightless at the top!
Oh, this again. Well it's been like 5 years since I posted my thoughts. Still thinking the same way though. We aren't there yet. 2022? Nope.
