Space Elevator, Can we build one? |
Space Elevator, Can we build one? |
 Aug 22 2005, 12:55 AM
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Feb 14 2006, 09:28 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 16-March 05 From: Clay County, Indiana, USA Member No.: 199 |
I saw that Brian Dunbar posted some information over at the yahoo space-elevator group. It's concerning news of recent testing. The same info can be found at Liftport's site:
Posted on Liftport's site, dateline Feb 13, 2006: Second Round of Tests |
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Feb 16 2006, 03:24 PM
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Space elevator tether climbs a mile high
NewScientist.com news service Feb. 15, 2006 ************************* LiftPort Group has built a cable for a space elevator stretching a mile into the sky and tethered on balloons, enabling robots to scrabble some way up and down the line. To make the cable, researchers sandwiched three carbon-fiber composite strings between four sheets of fiberglass tape, creating a mile-long cable about 5 centimeters wide and... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedire...sID=5306&m=7610 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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May 22 2006, 07:10 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 3-July 04 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 91 |
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imran Space Elevator Aug 22 2005, 12:55 AM
RNeuhaus Very interesting and it is a new paradigm to conqu... Aug 22 2005, 02:18 AM
dvandorn Alas, materials technology just isn't up to it... Aug 22 2005, 06:14 AM Bob Shaw A-a-a-a-ges ago there was a special issue of the J... Aug 22 2005, 10:04 AM jaredGalen I read an article over the past few days that spok... Aug 22 2005, 10:08 AM edstrick Also, about a year ago, another group was making s... Aug 22 2005, 10:11 AM Richard Trigaux Although conceptually simple and fascinating, the ... Aug 22 2005, 12:42 PM RNeuhaus More information about Carbon Nanotube Sheets, cli... Aug 22 2005, 03:52 PM Richard Trigaux QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Aug 22 2005, 03:52 PM)More ... Aug 22 2005, 04:25 PM Richard Trigaux QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Aug 22 2005, 03:52 PM)More ... Aug 22 2005, 04:33 PM RNeuhaus QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Aug 22 2005, 11:33 A... Aug 22 2005, 05:11 PM imran QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Aug 22 2005, 05:11 PM)Good ... Aug 22 2005, 05:36 PM RNeuhaus I still am not able to figure it out on how the ro... Aug 22 2005, 07:04 PM Bob Shaw Rodolfo:
As I understand it, the principle behind... Aug 22 2005, 07:54 PM RNeuhaus Bob: Now I understand it.
It is obvious that th... Aug 23 2005, 03:15 PM RNeuhaus More information about Elevator Space, Click here.... Aug 23 2005, 09:45 PM Mongo For information about other means of achieving orb... Aug 23 2005, 11:59 PM Bob Shaw QUOTE (Mongo @ Aug 24 2005, 12:59 AM)For info... Aug 24 2005, 10:59 AM imran Some new articles:
Trading Rockets for Space Elev... Sep 3 2005, 04:41 AM antoniseb There are several NASA prizes being offered for so... Sep 4 2005, 08:15 PM imran Some more news from Space.com:
Space Elevator Get... Sep 12 2005, 07:12 PM RNeuhaus First and a new progress...now elevator has reache... Sep 23 2005, 08:52 PM imran Stairway to Heaven
QUOTE In a significant step, A... Sep 25 2005, 02:48 PM imran A recent interview with Bradley Edwards. Good rea... Oct 16 2005, 05:23 AM imran Space elevator contest gets off the ground
NASA ba... Oct 21 2005, 04:10 PM RNeuhaus Two Events - Many Approaches
Designed to address ... Oct 26 2005, 03:19 AM Marz QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Oct 25 2005, 09:19 PM)None ... Oct 26 2005, 04:29 PM Cugel Hmmm, $200K next year?
Now where did I put th... Oct 27 2005, 12:52 AM Marz QUOTE (imran @ May 22 2006, 02:10 PM) Not... Jun 1 2006, 07:47 PM Richard Trigaux The problem described is that, while microscopic i... Jun 1 2006, 08:35 PM ljk4-1 For those who can recall and/or have the novel han... Jun 1 2006, 08:42 PM Cugel QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jun 1 2006, 08:42 PM... Jun 6 2006, 12:15 PM edstrick "...monocrystalline blades are very difficult... Jun 2 2006, 10:02 AM Richard Trigaux probably true.
At least this report is not a STUD... Jun 2 2006, 11:53 AM alan There is not a specific minimum tensile strength n... Jun 2 2006, 03:04 PM |
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