Space Elevator, Can we build one? |
Space Elevator, Can we build one? |
Aug 22 2005, 12:55 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 3-July 04 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 91 |
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Aug 22 2005, 02:18 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
Very interesting and it is a new paradigm to conquer to space. The article is worth to be read and I seems that it is between the fiction science and reality unless some technical leaders says that this project is feasible. Carl Sagan has already dreamed of it.
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Aug 22 2005, 06:14 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Alas, materials technology just isn't up to it yet. The only materials we've ever come up with that would be strong and flexible enough to use to build a space elevator can currently only be produced in strands measured in microns, and no one has a really good idea of how to practically put them together into larger structures.
When (if ever) the materials technology is up to it, it's a good idea, though. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Aug 22 2005, 10:08 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 257 Joined: 18-December 04 Member No.: 123 |
I read an article over the past few days that spoke about an advance in manufacturing Carbon nano tubes on a large scale.
This is just one further step in perhaps producing the materials needed for the space elevator idea. New Scientist had it too but I can't find it at the moment. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8976160/ -------------------- Turn the middle side topwise....TOPWISE!!
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