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The Lunar Elevator?

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Uploaded by on Jun 5, 2007

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
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  • yep... an alien. the thick glasses hide his overimport ant eyes... ah leadership

  • how can you not understand what he's talking about

  • 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.

  • I think he is un-alien he talk to advance for me by just listening i cannot understand what he is talking about?

  • 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.

  • A space elevator on the moon?  I like!

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