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2005-04-28 Home Front: Tech

Space Elevator: Phase II. Space Elevator Group to Manufacture Nanotubes

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-04-28 5:17:06 PM|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One of the buttons should be for the midway point which would be an airlock. Label it "B Ark Boarding".

Posted by .com 2005-04-28 6:30:29 PM|| 2005-04-28 6:30:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 We are just at the very first baby steps of a truly bizarre engineering revolution in more ways than one. For instance, a 1" rod of this material could provide the same structural strength to a high-rise building as the entire steel frame that is currently used. Even if a space elevator is impractical, replacing vast amounts of steel cable with a near-invisible ribbon has astounding weight and cost savings in innumerable situations. What about glass as hard as diamond? Diamond hard cutting edges that are just two or three molecules across? Etc., etc.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-04-28 8:46:28 PM|| 2005-04-28 8:46:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Think how much more deadly those kite flying contests can be in Afghanistan, etc. with that kind of kite string... They won't have to coat the string with glass powder in order to de-head the random bystander. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-04-28 10:18:31 PM|| 2005-04-28 10:18:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Carbon nanotubes--cool.
Elevator... prediction: It will get zapped before reaching the final destination. Hopefully, no one will be inside when this gets tested.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-28 11:28:22 PM|| 2005-04-28 11:28:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I think stairs would be better.

Posted by BooBoo 2005-04-28 11:56:25 PM|| 2005-04-28 11:56:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 BooBoo, they tried, I believe, in Babel? Did not work out they say.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-28 11:59:08 PM|| 2005-04-28 11:59:08 PM|| Front Page Top

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