Jerome Pearson, engineer, worked on Apollo, space-borne lasers, and now...the lunar elevator. Which is not to be confused with his 1975 idea, the (Earth) Space Elevator. Pearson is attending a Rutgers conference on lunar colonization W
So for the Moon you could build it out of something like Kevlar? Any chance of building it from glass fibers, or maybe sapphire? I ask because there is so much silicon, aluminum, and oxygen already on the Moon, in the regolith.
yep... an alien. the thick glasses hide his overimport ant eyes... ah leadership
brennanmoriarty 1 year ago
how can you not understand what he's talking about
FutureScientistOfUSA 3 years ago
We can do this because the moon has much less surface gravity, so the tensile strength of the cable material need not be so ridiculously high.
duskwalker2 3 years ago
I think he is un-alien he talk to advance for me by just listening i cannot understand what he is talking about?
Sonyoooo3 3 years ago
So for the Moon you could build it out of something like Kevlar? Any chance of building it from glass fibers, or maybe sapphire? I ask because there is so much silicon, aluminum, and oxygen already on the Moon, in the regolith.
SailorBarsoom 3 years ago
A space elevator on the moon? I like!
warchild81 3 years ago