Man this will be one of the greatest Engieering achievments in the history of Mankind i would say. To those asking what is it or how it would work.The Space Elevator would be 2 floors earth ans Earth's orbit. The line would most probably be carbon nanotubes.It would prbably have a counter weight to it as well. However Earth's gravity is very strong and it would be a very hard trick to do.Whoever constructs the first Space Elevator would lead in Space. AS usual the US is on it already lol.
@SuperColonel77 but sadly it would ony be cargo because space elevators need IMMENSE speed so it might crush any living thing inside like a piece of sponge
@Imaginator9 It may not be completeley impossible... the physics work, all we need are strong enough materials. Something with nanotech might just do the trick.
@Imaginator9 A geostationair satelite. It's a satelite that doesn't move it's position in relation to the earth. A counterweight would be the simplest solution, but it could also drag itself up on wheels, etc.
@Klikoderat Carbon nanotubes seem to be the most likely possibility at the moment. They are low density and have extremely high tensile strength. Unfortunately, at the moment they can't stand up to compression or shearing, and they only work on extremely small scales.
As for propulsion, I'd imagine something with electromagnets would be the most efficient method.
@GFedFan led zeppelin in my opinion is better i prefer "stairway to heaven" than "highway to hell" but i can consider "thunderstruck" when the elevator is hit by lightning lol
@inamerica55585 It would be a mostly one time only cost. Right now, it's a general engineering problem, so cost is just a guess, but if the cost went down to go into space on a per pound basis, this allows for cheaper satellite which is a net gain money wise, plus it allows some new applications like solar sattelites and...
screw it, here's Wikipedia's take:
en (dot) wikipedia (dot) org/wiki/Space_elevator_economics
the space elevator is an giant rocket like thing that shoots up on an straight cable connected to an space station where u board/unboard stuff passengers u name it.
No, actually a space station with a geosynchronous orbit, practically unlimited funding and some more advanced carbon fibre production and hardening techniques a space elevator is pretty much possible to construct.
Such a thing would be the only real way to build large spaceships, so if humanity tries to do such a thing, this is the way to do.
easiest way is to fly to other planets like neptun, get their 1000x years older material, which is less heavy but way stronger, and then build planes with it :D
@SuperUncleruckus Problem is that space elevators only work when they exist close to the equator, which rules out Canada. Why not take over some Caribbean island and build it there (except for the hideously slow production on island cities)?
I don't think any one company is building it yet, but the the reason for building one is, after startup costs, it becomes (relativity) cheap to operate, driving the cost down from over $10k a pound to about $100-200 per pound. It also makes construction of space ships (in space) more possible and affordable (one of the biggest problems with spaceships now is the fact they have to leave the "gravity well".
@Colmtims It was a joke about how the ground floor is touching the earth... like, proper noun "Ground" as opposed to simply the first floor of an elevator, which is frequently called "ground floor"
Good point. They could've done a shot from the point of view of the cable's end as it was erected. Maybe it would've been more trouble than it's worth now that we see similar things on Google Earth all the time.
@chankljp No, in call to power there was a wonder called the space elevator, with which you could put units in space for free or instantly (in that game you could colonize space as well as under water, there were units that battled in space, and ground units could be transported via space capsules across the planet almost instantly)
well no this is still a very distant project because it is just stupid. for many reasons 1 being that the space elevator would need to connect to a space station correct? explain to me how a solid object on earth is going to be able to connect with a incredibly fast moving space station?, also try and find some form of beam that could be manufactured to be able to stabalise something moving at the speed of the elevator and not to mention the amount of it you would need. so no this is not posible
.. if the space station orbits around equator, the spacestation have the right orbit speed .. to acturally connect a device like this .. the only slight problem here is to invent a material wich are strong and lighter then anyone known, well there is allready Carbon(something) wich COULD be used for this project, but this project is acturally the nearest thinkable devices that we will see in the future.
We actually have the technology to build one, carbon nanotube composites etc.
The only problem is the lack of funding, no company is able to raise the funds for it and governmens rather build stealth bombers for two billion dollars apiece rather than building a space elevator.
OI! fuck head, before you go on abusing me. read all my comments asshole i admited it wasent imposible it was simply a very distant prodject so read up on you facts next time before you go of fucking calling me a retard. and as i recall america is the only one who is making those usless fucking 2 billian dollar stealth bombers because there the only ones that can aford them with there war debt from other contries coming in! and also those stealth bombers arent even stealth! i no my facts!
ya it can be built but it dosent seem much proftiable for most companies they build space hotels theyr getting them cash and stuff fucking cheap asses and anyways it seems to dangerous like to build it it wold take alot of in air and in space building and im pretty sure it isnt safe not to mension that the elevator can be hit by a satilite and a structure like that can easly fall (space stations can fall apart from small asteroids) so the time and funds can be spent elsewere
First, spelling. I dont mind typos but please put effort into the message you are trying to convey.
Second, no business venture is going to do something that isnt profitable. Making profit is the point of companies, they have a legal obligation to do so.
Third, it wouldnt be unsafe or dangerous just because a layman thinks it looks dangerous. If scientists and engineers think its not dangerous than its not.
ermm ok im sorry for typing im just learning blind speed typing right now so i just have to practice anywhere i can and about it being safe well if they can desing a structure like that thats safe then why cant they desing a space station thats safe? i mean many space staions fell apart from small asteroids peircing the hull thats just my opinion
No space station ever had a significant micrometeorite impact to date. Most of the orbitinfg debris are just dust and metal flakes causing minor and easily repairable impacts.
We already have a solution for that too, check out "laser broom" on wikipedia.
@badababoopi Hey sry I couldn't get back to you for a while.
First off it does not need to connect to a space station right away, secondly the earth itself is rotating at a very rapid rate, the object at the end of the tether is not technically in orbit it is held completely by "Centrifugal force" and is PULLED rather then the line remaining vertical and taught like what happens if you spin a yo-yo on it's string around in circles.
@Gruegirl i was just thinking on your comment and im sorry if i have interprited it incorrectly but are you saying that it dousent have to be connected 100% of the time only in the time of transportation? btw i havent done physics in a while but is centrifugal force the scientific name for orbit? and even so if this is your point you must remember the fact that there is no friction in space and to connect the station to earth when it is orbiting is next to impossible
@stewiesfan2011 Maybe, Carbon nanotubing has a LONG way to go before it is even remotly capable of being practicly used for anything of value, even longer before it could be used to create a space elivator
But the chip was on the plate to begin with before you ate it. Even though it's gone now the concept of the chip still exists. We haven't built a space elevator yet, but the concept is just as real as the final product.
haha i see what your trying to say but your simply speaking futer tense as it may very well be a project that will be compleatedd in the future as the need to migrate from earth rises, but still we aint got it so the plans and the knowledge of it may be real but its not physicaly real. its still only a idea
How do you make the wonder into a youtube video? i tried recording it with a webcam but it comes out so fuzzy and it doesnt adjust to light changes, but yours looks like i was actually playing the game right now.
i tried fraps and it worked but it recorded the whole screen while wonders only take up less than half the screen. the only thing i can think of is a really good high quality camera. by the way i want to know what he used so im waiting for him to reply. thanks anyway.
A space elevator would, if anything, go to a geostationary satellite from which a ship would be launched to the moon. That's the whole reason why space elevators get any credence in the scientific community: spacelaunch without requiring massive boosters to escape Earth's gravity well.
I find it sad that I enjoy the Alpha Centauri space elevator video over this one. It's disappointing that with the advances made over nearly a decade, I'm left feeling underwhelmed by it all. Civ4 is a fun game and all, but I think it's missing the artistry of its sci-fi predecessor.
Same here. Personally I find Alpha Centauri much more enjoyable. But I do like a lot of the things they added in Civ4 such as cities have a cultural point that determines the border and settlers showing the city's economic radius before they construct the city.
Cultural points for cities wasn't added until the third game. And even so, it was a lot harder to managed compared to 4.
On that other post I was refereeing to Alpha Centauri, a game that was made by Sid Meier and have very similar game play. But it isn't part of the Civilization series.
@chankljp Is there just that one Alpha centauri game? and if so, why don't they make sequels witht he new Civ engines? i never played it but it sounds like a great game. and of course Sid Meier is a genius, so yeah.
in the future a space elevator will probably be reality for space travel. The majority of the cost a space mission is getting the supplies for the mission out of the atmosphere. The longer/harder the mission, the more it costs for a rocket to get out of the atmosphere. If we just had a space craft waiting in space and we could just take a nice gentle ride up to it through a space elevator theres no doubt it would be much easier to reach the moon and beyond.
Yeah. Like Fire00150 has said, the cost of transporting anything, is currently at around $11,000 per kilogram. A space elevator, or 'Skyhook' would reduce the cost of transport to over $200 per Kilogram.
That, and you could probably send a Rocket (Nuclear for the win) from the Elevator to wherever, using a lot less fuel than flying from Earth.
The space station is in geosynchronous orbit, meaning it would be orbiting around the earth at the exact speed needed to keep it above the same place all the time, so the pole would always lead up to the space station.
It would take a rope made of carbon nanotubes up to a station in geostationary orbit, then a crawler would climb the rope to take objects, people, and even spacecraft up out of the atmosphere.
All in all, it would ruduce the cost of transport to about $200/kg, instead of $11,000/kg, a minor cost cutter.
Although I am a diehard civ player, CTP's wonder movie for the space elevator is much better, imo. It's somewhere on youtube if you want to compare for yourself.
omg, do you people not have a care for the planet. First you fek it up with pollution, then you build an elevator to move all your crap to space. Is this the newage answer to finding a place for garbage? Don't even try and tell me that thing is for humans and blah blah. Your history is showing like a bad slip under grandma's skirt.
tari101 this is from a game... what's wrong with building a space elevator anyways.. we can do whatever we fucking want as long as we don't destroy the planer; we're the human race, we make shit, destroy it and make it better and better, that's why we rock.
dood this is y ppl say video games cause violence... because of ppl like you!!! It's a fuuking game! plz realize that games and reality are not the same for crying out loud.
Well, in theory its purpose would be to vastly reduce the cost of space flight, as the great bulk the cost is incurred reaching the terminal velocity required to leave Earth's orbit. And uh, its also a game.
Got to wonder what the buttons in this thing consist of.
Ground floor -> Moon
yadadadadadadada 1 week ago in playlist Civilization IV Wonders
Whats better. This or civ 5?
darklyt750 1 month ago
Floor 2.000.000.400 please.
TAUN170 1 month ago
this makes me want an Alpha Centauri reboot with new building videos.
C'mon, you know you want it too.
Alathaea 3 months ago
In one moment, Earth. In the next, Heaven.
NovaHessia 3 months ago
I think Google or Facebook should be made world wonder. Gives 1 free technology/map from each civ.
H1K8T95 4 months ago
OMGOMGOMG!!!! I'M IN SPAAACE!!!!!
enterprise0709 5 months ago
I hope it doesnt come down like 00 gundam
yonglin426 6 months ago
Were where you, when they built the ladder to heaven?
Zedilius 6 months ago in playlist Civilization IV Wonders 16
be scary as shit to go on his what if it broke down
TheSpiderWebss 6 months ago
@TheSpiderWebss It would just be bunji jumping, except you don't come back up
yonglin426 6 months ago
@TheSpiderWebss It's like,
Tour Guide: And this is the Space Elev-
Tourist: WHAT IS HE DOING!?
Vandal: *damages the pipe*
Pokemarky 6 months ago
Man this will be one of the greatest Engieering achievments in the history of Mankind i would say. To those asking what is it or how it would work.The Space Elevator would be 2 floors earth ans Earth's orbit. The line would most probably be carbon nanotubes.It would prbably have a counter weight to it as well. However Earth's gravity is very strong and it would be a very hard trick to do.Whoever constructs the first Space Elevator would lead in Space. AS usual the US is on it already lol.
SuperColonel77 6 months ago
@SuperColonel77 but sadly it would ony be cargo because space elevators need IMMENSE speed so it might crush any living thing inside like a piece of sponge
0815tdl 5 months ago
And they'll play Muzak "Girl from Ipanema" ALL the way to the top....AND on the way down.
proadmin1 6 months ago
i still wonder how a space elevator would even work...
coolsims94 7 months ago
@coolsims94 i can see how it would work what i cant see however is how to construct the thing
athomicritics 6 months ago
ok wouldnt the rotation of earth affect where the elvator stops?
thatoneguy843 7 months ago
@thatoneguy843 of course but it would not matter, space is pretty much space lol.
natemorey 7 months ago
And then the Covenant come and knock the whole thing down. Bastards won't even stay in their own genre.
OrcishSlacker 7 months ago 3
I'm in space.
Valikdu 7 months ago
@Valikdu I'm proud of you son :)
PotatoNirvash 6 months ago
SPAAAAACE!!!!!
enterprise0709 8 months ago
3 people have elevator phobia.Too bad.
samuelwiranto 8 months ago
lol wtf?
TJNathan87 8 months ago
You'll get halfway up and then it will stop moving and you will die lol
pzdontsaystupidreply 8 months ago
This will really be good for the moon and mars.
still say they need to come up with Folded space and use it.
not a star gate, just a door like on STNG contigan where you can just step threw it.
also was on the orginal stat trek on the city on the edge of forever.
altha2008 10 months ago
i like how the whole project led to a lost cause in the sky
donovan3955 1 year ago
@donovan3955 Exactly
Imaginator9 1 year ago
I like how in civ, wonders like that that are immposible and would never work are shown if hey did work.
Imaginator9 1 year ago
@Imaginator9 It may not be completeley impossible... the physics work, all we need are strong enough materials. Something with nanotech might just do the trick.
Klikoderat 1 year ago
@Klikoderat What would the giant wire be attached to? And what would be pushing it up or down. Also, I meant that would never work back then ;D
Imaginator9 1 year ago
@Imaginator9 A geostationair satelite. It's a satelite that doesn't move it's position in relation to the earth. A counterweight would be the simplest solution, but it could also drag itself up on wheels, etc.
Klikoderat 1 year ago
@Klikoderat Carbon nanotubes seem to be the most likely possibility at the moment. They are low density and have extremely high tensile strength. Unfortunately, at the moment they can't stand up to compression or shearing, and they only work on extremely small scales.
As for propulsion, I'd imagine something with electromagnets would be the most efficient method.
MrClickity 10 months ago
That elevator better have some damn good elevator music, because they'll be in there for a while. I'm thinking AC/DC.
GFedFan 1 year ago 21
@GFedFan led zeppelin in my opinion is better i prefer "stairway to heaven" than "highway to hell" but i can consider "thunderstruck" when the elevator is hit by lightning lol
762459 11 months ago
@762459 The songs are essentially polar opposites :P
GFedFan 11 months ago
Wait, what is the practical value of a space elevator?
inamerica55585 1 year ago
@inamerica55585
The lack of a spaceship.
Think about it: Its a evevator. To space.
One simply gets in the elevator, presses a button and POOF! your in space.
Compare that to the space shuttle.
FlyingDwarfzz 1 year ago
@inamerica55585 Currently per pound transpiration to space is hideously expensive. Space elevator should make it much cheaper.
RomanADavis 1 year ago
@RomanADavis Doesn't the extremely high cost and general ergonomic problems of a space elevator sort of cause the same problem?
inamerica55585 1 year ago
@inamerica55585 It would be a mostly one time only cost. Right now, it's a general engineering problem, so cost is just a guess, but if the cost went down to go into space on a per pound basis, this allows for cheaper satellite which is a net gain money wise, plus it allows some new applications like solar sattelites and...
screw it, here's Wikipedia's take:
en (dot) wikipedia (dot) org/wiki/Space_elevator_economics
RomanADavis 1 year ago
@RomanADavis When in doubt use wikipedia :D
dmileynon97 1 year ago
@inamerica55585 cool to whatch it fall with explosives
sithalo 1 year ago
the space elevator is an giant rocket like thing that shoots up on an straight cable connected to an space station where u board/unboard stuff passengers u name it.
videocritic2463 1 year ago
It's impossible to build someting like that!
ermanay11 1 year ago
@ermanay11 but nasa is investigating how to build a space elevator.
bigempirekai 1 year ago
@ermanay11
No, actually a space station with a geosynchronous orbit, practically unlimited funding and some more advanced carbon fibre production and hardening techniques a space elevator is pretty much possible to construct.
Such a thing would be the only real way to build large spaceships, so if humanity tries to do such a thing, this is the way to do.
Mashermat 1 year ago
@Mashermat
easiest way is to fly to other planets like neptun, get their 1000x years older material, which is less heavy but way stronger, and then build planes with it :D
duertoadr 1 year ago
Now just imagine some douche pressing all of the floor buttons on THAT.
Gello70 1 year ago 3
the only wonder that hasn't been built yet...
Scythemeup 1 year ago
@Scythemeup and the cure for cancer...
moksheebs 1 year ago
thats some sick shit wish that was real...canada should make it
SuperUncleruckus 1 year ago
@SuperUncleruckus Problem is that space elevators only work when they exist close to the equator, which rules out Canada. Why not take over some Caribbean island and build it there (except for the hideously slow production on island cities)?
7boon 1 year ago
@7boon ah buzzkill
SuperUncleruckus 1 year ago
Love the music, it's so delightfully quirky!
Kemonokami 1 year ago
they are actually building something like this for some reason
Riond551 1 year ago
@Riond551
I don't think any one company is building it yet, but the the reason for building one is, after startup costs, it becomes (relativity) cheap to operate, driving the cost down from over $10k a pound to about $100-200 per pound. It also makes construction of space ships (in space) more possible and affordable (one of the biggest problems with spaceships now is the fact they have to leave the "gravity well".
AtrusOranis 1 year ago
Yeah, ya get inside, then the thing breaks about half-way up and you have to sit there waiting for the maintenence crew, who are ALWAYS late.
Darrosified 1 year ago
I can't wait until they finish this elevator!
kalefles 1 year ago
In one moment, Earth.
In the next, Heaven.
Arancaytar 1 year ago
@Arancaytar and after that floating into the sun at the speed of light screaming :D
philjk9372 1 year ago
The space elevator is being designed irl these days. Probably will take ~50 more years to complete it.
black213lol 1 year ago
Only if everyone stops laughing now! [/xkcd]
Arancaytar 1 year ago
@black213lol pshh wonder what will be done first space elevator or crazy horse?
LittleLefty26 1 year ago
999999999999th floor please
Cili1000XL 1 year ago 143
I think it will only have two floors:
G: Earth
1: Space
chankljp 1 year ago 187
Imagine getting stuck in it :))
Cili1000XL 1 year ago 8
Like really disappointing flight.
DracoX9 1 year ago
@chankljp
LOL
thepowerofwealth 1 year ago
@chankljp Nah, G:Earth 1:Space station
gtamaniak100 1 year ago
@chankljp yepp
moksheebs 1 year ago
@chankljp lol you overpowered hes comment by 1 thumbs up
armandux1productions 1 year ago
@chankljp It's Ground floor and not ground floor.
maxnwil 9 months ago
@maxnwil What?
Colmtims 9 months ago
@Colmtims It was a joke about how the ground floor is touching the earth... like, proper noun "Ground" as opposed to simply the first floor of an elevator, which is frequently called "ground floor"
maxnwil 9 months ago
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@chankljp I stick to 999999999999th floors :P
SovietLenin1 6 months ago
@chankljp So what if you need to go to the basement?
Dunam 4 months ago
@Cili1000XL you wouldnt want to get off at any of the middle floors then.
Ascensiam 1 year ago
how do i get in tha space?!!!!
jori328 1 year ago
lol if there would be a space elevaitor on earth i hope it wont get stuck in the middle
ElvarK1 1 year ago 2
lol ya and even worse emgaine if it breaks right before reaching top floor and the mechanism used to hold it wont work thats a VEEERRYYY long fall XD
killer21334 1 year ago
Reminds me of the Psychic Dominater from Red Alert 2. I wish Yuri from Red Alert 2 has his own sequel. That would be AWESOME.
Perhaps it oculd be called Yuri's Revenge 2. Without the red alert prefix.
RadioHyperactive 2 years ago
One moment, Earth. The next, heaven.
gyrobotZ 2 years ago 2
takes so long to build elevator and like 1millasecond to build the pole the elevator goes up lol
OrinjFlames24 2 years ago
Good point. They could've done a shot from the point of view of the cable's end as it was erected. Maybe it would've been more trouble than it's worth now that we see similar things on Google Earth all the time.
Kizor 2 years ago
I'm guessing that this is inspired by Call to Power.
LinkMarioSamus 2 years ago
More by Alpha Centauri (which is like a Science Fiction style Civilization).
chankljp 1 year ago
@chankljp No, in call to power there was a wonder called the space elevator, with which you could put units in space for free or instantly (in that game you could colonize space as well as under water, there were units that battled in space, and ground units could be transported via space capsules across the planet almost instantly)
xbigwolfx 1 year ago
In halo odst the tubes failed and broke to a space rubaester in thier elvator.
I would pay billion dollars to see our governments to build this
we been build the space
station for how long now
and the station is low tech so yea.....
xgrawxhu 2 years ago
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Meh, not a very impressive wonder.
pspboy7 2 years ago
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This isn't real, and for that reason it's one of my least favorite wonders.
8394147 2 years ago
however, carbon nanotubing would allow us to do such. thats what my science teacher told me, anyway...
stewiesfan2011 2 years ago 17
'tis true, and it would be the single biggest engeneering feat EVER.
now if only we could get nanotubes longer then a few feet.
Gruegirl 2 years ago 8
I actually got to see a culture of nanotubes once. They looked like tiny pepper grains suspended in water.
SilentHunter7 2 years ago
well no this is still a very distant project because it is just stupid. for many reasons 1 being that the space elevator would need to connect to a space station correct? explain to me how a solid object on earth is going to be able to connect with a incredibly fast moving space station?, also try and find some form of beam that could be manufactured to be able to stabalise something moving at the speed of the elevator and not to mention the amount of it you would need. so no this is not posible
badababoopi 2 years ago
.. if the space station orbits around equator, the spacestation have the right orbit speed .. to acturally connect a device like this .. the only slight problem here is to invent a material wich are strong and lighter then anyone known, well there is allready Carbon(something) wich COULD be used for this project, but this project is acturally the nearest thinkable devices that we will see in the future.
fabia23 2 years ago
You are fucking retarded.
We actually have the technology to build one, carbon nanotube composites etc.
The only problem is the lack of funding, no company is able to raise the funds for it and governmens rather build stealth bombers for two billion dollars apiece rather than building a space elevator.
Szgerle 2 years ago 4
OI! fuck head, before you go on abusing me. read all my comments asshole i admited it wasent imposible it was simply a very distant prodject so read up on you facts next time before you go of fucking calling me a retard. and as i recall america is the only one who is making those usless fucking 2 billian dollar stealth bombers because there the only ones that can aford them with there war debt from other contries coming in! and also those stealth bombers arent even stealth! i no my facts!
badababoopi 2 years ago
Death is more profitable than life.
Tessmage 1 year ago
Actually, not., this is just a popular bullshit phrase.
American "patriotism" is to blame, they wouldnt feel them secure without "HURR MURRICA STRONG"
Szgerle 1 year ago
Nope, not a popular bullshit phrase. A very unpopular bullshit reality.
Just do a Google search under "American military-industrial complex" and learn all about the big business of death and destruction.
Tessmage 1 year ago
@Szgerle
Not true. The current level of carbon nanotubes are not able to be assembled at great lengths without breaking and on a big enough scale.
Carbon nanotubes will change the world when they are raedy
LucaEnzo 1 year ago
ya it can be built but it dosent seem much proftiable for most companies they build space hotels theyr getting them cash and stuff fucking cheap asses and anyways it seems to dangerous like to build it it wold take alot of in air and in space building and im pretty sure it isnt safe not to mension that the elevator can be hit by a satilite and a structure like that can easly fall (space stations can fall apart from small asteroids) so the time and funds can be spent elsewere
killer21334 1 year ago
First, spelling. I dont mind typos but please put effort into the message you are trying to convey.
Second, no business venture is going to do something that isnt profitable. Making profit is the point of companies, they have a legal obligation to do so.
Third, it wouldnt be unsafe or dangerous just because a layman thinks it looks dangerous. If scientists and engineers think its not dangerous than its not.
Szgerle 1 year ago
ermm ok im sorry for typing im just learning blind speed typing right now so i just have to practice anywhere i can and about it being safe well if they can desing a structure like that thats safe then why cant they desing a space station thats safe? i mean many space staions fell apart from small asteroids peircing the hull thats just my opinion
killer21334 1 year ago
No space station ever had a significant micrometeorite impact to date. Most of the orbitinfg debris are just dust and metal flakes causing minor and easily repairable impacts.
We already have a solution for that too, check out "laser broom" on wikipedia.
Szgerle 1 year ago
@badababoopi Hey sry I couldn't get back to you for a while.
First off it does not need to connect to a space station right away, secondly the earth itself is rotating at a very rapid rate, the object at the end of the tether is not technically in orbit it is held completely by "Centrifugal force" and is PULLED rather then the line remaining vertical and taught like what happens if you spin a yo-yo on it's string around in circles.
Gruegirl 1 year ago
@Gruegirl i was just thinking on your comment and im sorry if i have interprited it incorrectly but are you saying that it dousent have to be connected 100% of the time only in the time of transportation? btw i havent done physics in a while but is centrifugal force the scientific name for orbit? and even so if this is your point you must remember the fact that there is no friction in space and to connect the station to earth when it is orbiting is next to impossible
badababoopi 1 year ago
@stewiesfan2011 Maybe, Carbon nanotubing has a LONG way to go before it is even remotly capable of being practicly used for anything of value, even longer before it could be used to create a space elivator
1Celebrindor 1 year ago
Actually.. watch the science channel, it's not done but it's definitly something their working on atm. :D
Militarized 2 years ago
It is real, we just haven't mad one yet.
RaynorX 2 years ago
ya might wanna re-word that. its like saying. i ate that chip, but its still on the plate XD
badababoopi 2 years ago
But the chip was on the plate to begin with before you ate it. Even though it's gone now the concept of the chip still exists. We haven't built a space elevator yet, but the concept is just as real as the final product.
That better? :P
RaynorX 2 years ago
haha i see what your trying to say but your simply speaking futer tense as it may very well be a project that will be compleatedd in the future as the need to migrate from earth rises, but still we aint got it so the plans and the knowledge of it may be real but its not physicaly real. its still only a idea
badababoopi 2 years ago
Yes but don't forget that, planes, automobiles, nanobots, space stations, computers, and lasers were all ideas at one point too :P
RaynorX 2 years ago
You can't have your chips and eat them too...
donignacio2000 2 years ago
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How do you make the wonder into a youtube video? i tried recording it with a webcam but it comes out so fuzzy and it doesnt adjust to light changes, but yours looks like i was actually playing the game right now.
Anthonyk312 2 years ago
Get a screen recorder, and a computer that can handle recording. FRAPS is good, but buy the full version. It's worth it.
ThecanadianColin 2 years ago
i tried fraps and it worked but it recorded the whole screen while wonders only take up less than half the screen. the only thing i can think of is a really good high quality camera. by the way i want to know what he used so im waiting for him to reply. thanks anyway.
Anthonyk312 2 years ago
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You do have to realize that both the Earth and the moon rotates and revolves. and we all know what happens next.
colonist067 3 years ago
a space elevator does not go to the moon
MrWaeseL 2 years ago 6
A space elevator would, if anything, go to a geostationary satellite from which a ship would be launched to the moon. That's the whole reason why space elevators get any credence in the scientific community: spacelaunch without requiring massive boosters to escape Earth's gravity well.
tycoonmike3 2 years ago 5
With any luck I'll live to see one of these!
cymro5 3 years ago 3
I think i'll be seeing the production of it someday, if not it being finished. xD I still got 80 years of life ahead of me!
Swampertdude56 2 years ago 2
you planning to be 100?
bahhv2 2 years ago
i'll be lucky to live till 60 lawl and so will he
futur3artist8D 2 years ago
I find it sad that I enjoy the Alpha Centauri space elevator video over this one. It's disappointing that with the advances made over nearly a decade, I'm left feeling underwhelmed by it all. Civ4 is a fun game and all, but I think it's missing the artistry of its sci-fi predecessor.
BackSnapNasal 3 years ago 7
Same here. Personally I find Alpha Centauri much more enjoyable. But I do like a lot of the things they added in Civ4 such as cities have a cultural point that determines the border and settlers showing the city's economic radius before they construct the city.
chankljp 1 year ago
@chankljp wait, they didn't have the culture aspect before Civ IV? i started with IV so that seems weird to me.
GrizzlerBorno 1 year ago
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Cultural points for cities wasn't added until the third game. And even so, it was a lot harder to managed compared to 4.
On that other post I was refereeing to Alpha Centauri, a game that was made by Sid Meier and have very similar game play. But it isn't part of the Civilization series.
chankljp 1 year ago
@chankljp Is there just that one Alpha centauri game? and if so, why don't they make sequels witht he new Civ engines? i never played it but it sounds like a great game. and of course Sid Meier is a genius, so yeah.
GrizzlerBorno 1 year ago
@GrizzlerBorno
Yes. Just one game plus an expansion pack. It is a really fun game and really makes you think about politics and philosophy.
I guess that they are just not interested in making a sequel or a remake.
chankljp 1 year ago
i love pie :P
nnieblok 3 years ago
in the future a space elevator will probably be reality for space travel. The majority of the cost a space mission is getting the supplies for the mission out of the atmosphere. The longer/harder the mission, the more it costs for a rocket to get out of the atmosphere. If we just had a space craft waiting in space and we could just take a nice gentle ride up to it through a space elevator theres no doubt it would be much easier to reach the moon and beyond.
manmythlegend12 3 years ago
Yeah. Like Fire00150 has said, the cost of transporting anything, is currently at around $11,000 per kilogram. A space elevator, or 'Skyhook' would reduce the cost of transport to over $200 per Kilogram.
That, and you could probably send a Rocket (Nuclear for the win) from the Elevator to wherever, using a lot less fuel than flying from Earth.
DevoiranGamer 3 years ago 2
Charlie and the Great Space Elevator?
Umprella 3 years ago 3
space...elevator?
wcfcarolina13 3 years ago
I wonder what would happen if the pole would brake...
Stefnir94 3 years ago
In Halo 3 it was shown that if a space elevator ever collapse the wreckage will scatter all over a large area.
chankljp 3 years ago
I was just wondering if the space station at the end of it would break loose, stay on orbit with the pole just hanging there, or would it collapse?
Stefnir94 3 years ago
The Space Station would most likely stay in orbit.
MasonMortensen 3 years ago
So we on earth would see a long pole flying around, haha.
Stefnir94 3 years ago
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the pole would most likely break and fall to Earth, while the space station would stay in orbit for at least some time.
MasonMortensen 3 years ago
Ok, thanks.
Stefnir94 3 years ago 2
The space station is in geosynchronous orbit, meaning it would be orbiting around the earth at the exact speed needed to keep it above the same place all the time, so the pole would always lead up to the space station.
sv0lech 3 years ago 2
That would look strange from the ground O_o
unless the pole would break off.
Stefnir94 3 years ago
I have the space elevator!!!
refresh967 3 years ago
It can work with carbon nanotubes. Super strong and super flexable as well as light. Put a hub in geosynchonous orbit and then BAM!
Orangepitcher03 3 years ago
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well it shows a rope that jutts out into space and thats impossible cuz the earth and moon dont rotate were it would stay like that
fudgeristic 3 years ago
the hub in space would stay in geosynchronous orbit :p
ECHOimageVII 3 years ago
What about a long metal-ish type pole, possibly constructed from something very hard, like diamonds, which goes up to the moon :D
Shack11 3 years ago
They use carbon fibers.Awsome vid!
refresh967 3 years ago
I like being stupid though D:
Shack11 3 years ago
It would take a rope made of carbon nanotubes up to a station in geostationary orbit, then a crawler would climb the rope to take objects, people, and even spacecraft up out of the atmosphere.
All in all, it would ruduce the cost of transport to about $200/kg, instead of $11,000/kg, a minor cost cutter.
Fire00150 3 years ago
diamonds? Yeah, that sounds plausible, lol.
Curtie555 3 years ago
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would never work...
fudgeristic 3 years ago
truth
04545i 3 years ago
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truth
04545i 3 years ago
Although I am a diehard civ player, CTP's wonder movie for the space elevator is much better, imo. It's somewhere on youtube if you want to compare for yourself.
arnbkr 3 years ago 3
does this game in to the future ?
swiFtey08 3 years ago
yea
noretartedkrns 3 years ago
random: THIS IS SPAC... i mean SPARTA!
intended: tari101, your a tree hugger
mg2sna 3 years ago
ROFL ROFL ROFL! (about the guy thinking that it is real life) sorry but thats gotta be more funny than the video xD!!!!
abe123xd 4 years ago
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omg, do you people not have a care for the planet. First you fek it up with pollution, then you build an elevator to move all your crap to space. Is this the newage answer to finding a place for garbage? Don't even try and tell me that thing is for humans and blah blah. Your history is showing like a bad slip under grandma's skirt.
tari101 4 years ago
This is from a video game. NOT real life.
chankljp 4 years ago
Tari101 you wated your time and lost your dignity posting that comment
Yukimura570 4 years ago 2
What a retard. Really. You must be one of the stupidest people I've ever heard of. -_-
Kerrski 4 years ago 8
You are a sad.. sad soul.
thetikitony 4 years ago 9
tari101 is a tree hugger
ficlbow 4 years ago 7
tari101 this is from a game... what's wrong with building a space elevator anyways.. we can do whatever we fucking want as long as we don't destroy the planer; we're the human race, we make shit, destroy it and make it better and better, that's why we rock.
Darkgrammer 3 years ago 3
Fuckin' noob
nightwatchmanmorello 4 years ago
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ficlbow 4 years ago 2
dood this is y ppl say video games cause violence... because of ppl like you!!! It's a fuuking game! plz realize that games and reality are not the same for crying out loud.
amsd1231 4 years ago
um.. wtf dude, this is a fucking game? cant u tell?
scalpine 4 years ago
shit man... you looked fucking retard with that comment
sergioelmejor1 4 years ago 2
LOL. Tard101, get some brains.
slashingraven 4 years ago
Well, in theory its purpose would be to vastly reduce the cost of space flight, as the great bulk the cost is incurred reaching the terminal velocity required to leave Earth's orbit. And uh, its also a game.
Drackoe 4 years ago