The space elevator

The space elevator. A cheaper way to space, the perfect fuel supply, our answer to an easier way to the Moon, Mars or even use it for a new space base. They will be cheaper than rockets and with the help of NASA, The European Space Agency, many colleges, China and Russia, it should be built sooner than what we think...

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[MrCantstandliberals]

this is already in progress being built by billionaire, sir richard branson, guy is copying someone elses shit

[isthereanythathasnt3]

@MrCantstandliberals, he is doing virgin galactic but I don't recall anything about him building a space elevator, this won't be feasable in his lifetime.

[Chimpa110]

dont let chinese build this ;) . it will fall off in 1 week

[OminesDragon]

@Chimpa110 If the chinese did build it, the sign at the bottom would likely say "made in china"

[TheScarab19]

@fleppleman something i feel people need to under stand is the geo sync orbit. the tether would keep the sat station at the top from floating away from the centrifugal force, if the tether breaks the sat won't move, and if need be, can be let alone tell it floats away from the earth, its like an opposite decaying orbit, slow but would happen to an object that big.

[TheScarab19]

@eddyecho not doge repel, if you can turn anything into a super conductor by super freezing it, if we could find out how to revers that, and make the tether be the conductor but push the stuff around much like the earths magnetic field and the solar rays. now this i feel is possible but not for a long time, super conductors work like a south pole to a south pole and retracting, only it does it with the earths magnetic field.

[TheScarab19]

@MrUnit666 Your right and i love that, (no homo) but you left out the big part. fuck the rotation what about the orbit of the sun. the earth and mars for say, is only for a short time together as close as it can be. is spends more time on the other side of the sun then it does in reachable distance from us.

[TheScarab19]

@jack1966jack it is. a satellite would be made first with a carbon fiber tether rolled up in it. It would then be slowly lowered. now the sat is in geo sinc orbit so it is always in the same spot above the ground. the cable is then tethered to the ground and the centrifugal force will keep the sat from ever having a decaying orbit. and the carbon fiber is many times stronger then most would think, it would have no problem holding for years and years of use and strain.

[jack1966jack]

It is impossible because no one can breath upper than oxygen limit. It is crazy. And besides an earthquake will knock it down........

[BRBSHUTUPNOOB]

@MrUnit666 if the earth stopped moving time would be stop too, and we would all be stuck forever

[MrUnit666]

Connecting it to other planets is a bad idea. All planets rotate, and they all orbit the sun. The conflict in rotations would snap the tether. You could try to stop the planets from rotating right? No. Even if there was a way, it would be entirely too expensive. Besides, rotation=centrifugal force=gravity. If the tower is to tall, the Earth would be slowed down, also reducing gravity considerably. This isn't going to be built because if it was, it would, one way or another, destroy the world.

[MrDMeans]

Space Elevator will be a major achievement for mankind. power sources for this elevator seem to questioning the best method of providing power to the elevator for the climb. I say what about using two Carbon Nanotube tethers and taking advantage of there electrical conductive ability to provide the added power for the elevator and renforce the strenght of the vanderwall effect.

[WhentheworldendsWWYD]

WHY space ELEVATORS? Why no Space ESCALATORS?

[goodcat1982]

@MrCantstandliberals this idea has been around for decades. No one owns the idea.