How Far are we from Building a Space Elevator?

Radrook · Apr 5, 2017

Jimmy D said:
Cool! Can we club together and send I'm Sorry up. I won't go with him though, not a big fan of heights.

That building would be twelve kilometers high! Maybe a little too close to the canopy for I'm Sorry's taste.

BTW
I don't like heights either. I cringe every time I see that scene in a film where Sylvester Stallone is up on a high very narrow ledge helping two other climbers set up a cable to a transport helicopter on another ledge with a chasm between them.

Can't understand how mountain climbers can remain so calm when death is just a slip away. I admire those who can tolerate that.

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Radrook · Apr 5, 2017

AV1611VET said:
Yup.

Just like the indivisible atom.

So they are lying to us about the atom as well? Why would they do that?

AirPo · Apr 5, 2017

Anyone mention Kim Stanley Robinson's book Red Mars?

It features an elevator and rebels bringing it down.

AV1611VET · Apr 5, 2017

Radrook said:
So they are lying to us about the atom as well? Why would they do that?

The word "atom" means "indivisible."

Radrook · Apr 5, 2017

AirPo said:
Anyone mention Kim Stanley Robinson's book Red Mars?

It features an elevator and rebels bringing it down.

Thanks for the reference. The only one I have ever read that included a space elevator was by Arthur C. Clark. I think it was in the 2010 Space Odyssey novel sequel. In his novel it is a dilapidated structure largely abandoned and so large that it defies believability.

Radrook · Apr 5, 2017

AV1611VET said:
The word "atom" means "indivisible."

So you aren't suggesting a conspiracy. Guess I misunderstood.

Radrook · Apr 5, 2017

AV1611VET said:
That thing would be an eyesore.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder:

Radrook · Apr 5, 2017

Here is a video that explains many of the concepts that as yet might remain unclear.

AV1611VET · Apr 5, 2017

Radrook said:
So you aren't suggesting a conspiracy. Guess I misunderstood.

Would I do a thing like that!?

Radrook · Apr 5, 2017

JD16 said:
I've not adopted it, I think it was from I'm sorry that I first heard about it...its a flat earther thing I think...

Firmament - Wikipedia

Once you adopt the view that the canopy is there preventing passage then you have to explain why they are telling us the opposite. It's like in chess-if you say A then you are expected to say B, otherwise the logic goes out the floodgates.

Ophiolite · Apr 6, 2017

Radrook said:
Thanks for the reference. The only one I have ever read that included a space elevator was by Arthur C. Clark. I think it was in the 2010 Space Odyssey novel sequel. In his novel it is a dilapidated structure largely abandoned and so large that it defies believability.

Arthur C. Clarke - "The Fountains of Paradise" describes the building of an elevator. (He takes the liberty of moving his beloved Sri Lanka closer to the equator for the Earthside end of the elevator.

Charles Sheffield - "The Web Between the Worlds" written about the same time as Fountains of Paradise.

Radrook · Apr 6, 2017

Shemjaza said:
Isaac Arthur has a great channel about extremely ambitious space exploration and mega structures:

This is the best explanation I have seen so far! Thanks for posting it.

FreeinChrist · Apr 6, 2017

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