The Space Elevator
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Uploaded by aicsresearch on Apr 26, 2008
The Space Elevator, animated in this video as envisioned by Bradley Edwards, the most current proponent of this means of getting into space cheaply.
The initial research behind this video was funded by the NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts.
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What I'm curious about is how they would build the area bridging our atmosphere to space. It's really... really freaking high up there. And the temperatures associated would wreck havoc on this... wind turbulence. Hrm... Curious as to how they're thinking it would be feasible to make this now.
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@xXSoldinihoXx I assure you I'm not trolling.
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It will NEVER be able to connect to another land mass because of fucking orbit and rotation... How did they not think of that?
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SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY! No seriously if I had a fortune it would all be going to this. I'm dying to get into space.
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@aroblesCG Great fucking joke...
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suppose it fell. then what?
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Huston: how up there guys?
elevator dudes: damn good...hey wait.... ASTEROID!!!
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Lol Elevator Action - Space edition
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@hansol909 entering the atmosphere is what causes burning up but its not the atmosphere that causes it its how fast you enter the friction is what causes the heat and the elevator will probably be going as fast as a large jet witch isnt fast enough to cause any burning and theres a new polymer that can block radiation fairly light as iv been told and oxygen is carried by tanks just like normal rockets
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@aroblesCG not sure if trolling or just very stupid
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@Summon256 pushing alarm button: "hem, houston... we've had a problem!
We're stuck between 5500000000 and 5500000001 floor..."
guglieblue 3 months ago 26
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Of course it wouldn't be connecting the Earth to the moon or Mars. The point is that it would allow us to lift a huge amount of material into orbit for low costs. Commercialization would become much more feasible and you would be able to do things like colonize the moon and Mars faster than if you were relying solely on expensive rockets.
pcracioppo 1 year ago 11