Guest Fluke Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 http://t.co/opxqaoba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kheldar Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Arthur C Clarke, how much we owe you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fluke Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Scary isn't it? Still sounds too much like sci-fi for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Strings Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Claustrophobia and vertigo both together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 This topic has been around for years, Arthur C Clarke explained in in one of his books form 1945 I think. With every shuttle launch costing half a billion dollars, and I'm sure similar costs from other countries it's infact a cheap way to get into space once of course the elevator is built. It can be powered from either a nuclear source on earth or a solar source form in space either way pretty cheap. You never know in hundreds of years to come you could have major cities in space. You could have a way to travel around the world, go up in London, undock in stationary orbit, let the world rotate and come down in New York. Personally I think it's just a dream, as Europe we cannot even bail out Greece where are we going to find all this money from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kheldar Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 This topic has been around for years, Arthur C Clarke explained in in one of his books form 1945 I think. With every shuttle launch costing half a billion dollars, and I'm sure similar costs from other countries it's infact a cheap way to get into space once of course the elevator is built. It can be powered from either a nuclear source on earth or a solar source form in space either way pretty cheap. You never know in hundreds of years to come you could have major cities in space. You could have a way to travel around the world, go up in London, undock in stationary orbit, let the world rotate and come down in New York. Personally I think it's just a dream, as Europe we cannot even bail out Greece where are we going to find all this money from. It doesn't require a terrible amount of power either. Gravity does the grunt work of moving things up/down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 I think one of the major stumbling blocks is that we don't have a material strong and light enough yet. There are major hopes that one of the carbon structures they are working on will prove useful. It would be fun just doing the return trip just up and down, but that would probably cost more than Greece is worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Hmmmm..... I'll believe it when I see it lol. I doubt it would happen in my lifetime anyway so a bit non-plused really. I'll leave it in the realm of SciFi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kheldar Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Hmmmm..... I'll believe it when I see it lol. I doubt it would happen in my lifetime anyway so a bit non-plused really. I'll leave it in the realm of SciFi That's more or less what they said about communication satellites when ..... Arthur C Clarke wrote about them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 I read somewhere that it needs to be tethered at both ends, one to Earth and one into space, the space one is called the counterweight and the plan is to capture a small asteroid and anchor the elevator to it. Now thats science fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Strings Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 It is easy to be cynical in these cash strapped times but this could ignite a new space race (I hope). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Now that would be the ultimate Bungee wouldn't it.! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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