The Space Elevator

bornkillerbornkiller AdministratorIn your girlfriends snatch
edited February 2012 in Spurious Generalities
Dem Crazy Japs.
This space elevator will comprise a cabin that is specially developed to hold 30 passengers who will then be hoisted upwards toward the heavens along a cable made from carbon nanotubes, a material that boasts 20 times the strength of steel. It will take around a week’s time in the cabin to travel the estimated 36,000 kilometers required to arrive at the terminal station – assuming one zips along at 200kmh, of course. The entire elevator will run 96,000 kilometers, and fret not about disappearing into space as it will remain secured to a departure platform that is firmly located on the ground. A week’s selection of elevator music ought to be the bare minimum, otherwise you might just go nuts!

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/02/space-elevator-a-reality-by-2050/

Comments

  • Darth BeaverDarth Beaver Meine Ehre heißt Treue
    edited February 2012
    That idea is right up there with this;
  • fagfag Regular
    edited February 2012
    These work off suction, right?

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    Well..Space is a vacuum. :D

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  • DfgDfg Admin
    edited February 2012
    Interesting idea, but bad execution. A simple gravity off and on system would work wonders. Consider a tube where the container is located and you have two devices at the end and it would pretty much cancel the earths gravity and make an artificial one. Each hub would simple act like a magnet attractiving the tub to the station. The speeds can easily exceed the limits discussed here. I think that might be the way of the future. As soon as the container reaches the station, it would cancel the gravity and reverse the direction and that will deaccelerate it and then the passengers can easily get off.
  • fagfag Regular
    edited February 2012
    Dfg wrote: »
    Interesting idea, but bad execution. A simple gravity off and on system would work wonders. Consider a tube where the container is located and you have two devices at the end and it would pretty much cancel the earths gravity and make an artificial one. Each hub would simple act like a magnet attractiving the tub to the station. The speeds can easily exceed the limits discussed here. I think that might be the way of the future. As soon as the container reaches the station, it would cancel the gravity and reverse the direction and that will deaccelerate it and then the passengers can easily get off.

    Yea..If the tube was under vacuum..It would have no air in it. Meaning, no drag. You could haul asssss.
  • RunScreamingRunScreaming Acolyte
    edited February 2012
    "Simple"... that's funny, thanks. ;)
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