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The Space Elevator
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Publication time: 2007-07-03 06:26:51
Tags: space | elevator | technology | science | solar | 
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The Space Elevator will reduce the cost of getting from earth to space. It will also allow us to take very large payloads into space very easily, very safely. Because of that, we can build cities on the moon. We can build space stations. We can build large solar arrays in space to collect energy from the sun and beam it down to earth. How would space elevator affect the average person? Through for example much faster telecommunication rates -- you can have any kind of data rates you want, and videophones will be as common as a cell phone. And the solar power energy we'll collect can relieve our dependence on oil. That in itself will change a lot of things it will reduce pollution and it will change world politics, hopefully even stopping some of the conflicts.
sarajanegarrFavorites  2010-03-20 16:21:46
Elevator up in space , wtf! that's just ridiculous. Imagine if we got stuck in the elevator? lmao
KardOfHeartFavorites  2010-03-15 18:01:05
Centrifugal Force
OriginalSamsquatchFavorites  2010-03-15 12:44:08
UofS all the! Lets see agros beat that
ArtificerabbitFavorites  2010-03-12 15:33:36
Neil, the d**ned thing would have to be MILES wide at the top. Bogus! Too many mega-tons of cable would be needed. Shame on you for pseudoscience!
jayhellcatFavorites  2010-03-10 22:29:19
Just a thought: to build this you have a space station 22.000 miles/36.000 km above Earth lowering the cable. So... at a point this cable will be in the gravity field of the Earth. Let's say the tip of the cable is about 20km above Earth, so you have a space station with 35.980km of cable of which a lot of cable is pulled by gravity. Wouldn't the space station need a boost to escape this gravity and keep geostationary or not?