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Here comes the inflatable space elevator
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:38 pm
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:38 pm
Exciting times, my friends LINK
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Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:41 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:44 pm to Jim Rockford
a space elevator is basically on the scale of importance for us moving to outer space as the railroad was for moving people out west.
GAME CHANGER.
GAME CHANGER.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:46 pm to Bunta
so it will be the tallest structure on earth, this kinda seems like a bad idea
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:48 pm to Bunta
Can BR build an inflatable loop?
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:48 pm to Bunta
The ultimate statics problem. I wonder how this thing would handle substantial winds
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:49 pm to Jim Rockford
When I read the article all I could hear is Jordan Belfort selling me 5000 shares of this penny stock 
This post was edited on 8/16/15 at 9:53 pm
Posted on 8/16/15 at 10:05 pm to Jim Rockford
How long until Muslims blow it up?
Posted on 8/16/15 at 10:07 pm to Jim Rockford
It's a rigid airship filled with nonflammable helium.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 10:08 pm to aVatiger
The muslim terrorists won't allow it. Too much science. Not enough Allah and rape of little girls.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 10:39 pm to Bunta
Tower of Babel?
Posted on 8/16/15 at 11:02 pm to redstick13
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nonflammable helium.
Oh helium is flammable. Under correct conditions of course. But pretty easily. Argon (another nonflammable gas) is used all the time for plasma applications
Posted on 8/16/15 at 11:17 pm to Jim Rockford
Holy shite that's amazing if they can pull it off.
:itshappening:
:itshappening:
Posted on 8/16/15 at 11:24 pm to Jim Rockford
Not happening in our lifetimes. My kids may see it, but i doubt it.
Posted on 8/17/15 at 12:24 am to OysterPoBoy
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How long until Muslims blow it up?
Seriously...there is no way an inflatable tower that reaches to space would last more than a year. This will never happen.
Posted on 8/17/15 at 12:40 am to Jim Rockford
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It is an idea that every small child has had at some point. Instead of sending up rockets into space, why not simply build a huge lift.
not so much
Posted on 8/17/15 at 12:42 am to Jim Rockford
As exciting as it is, I wouldn't be caught dead riding up a 12.4 mile high elevator attached to an inflated structure.
This post was edited on 8/17/15 at 12:43 am
Posted on 8/17/15 at 12:45 am to Jim Rockford
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And in the US, the Washington based LiftPort Group is also planning is to use a 'ribbon' cable to transport material, robots and even humans to and from the surface of the Moon.
It will be attached to a space station in a Lagrange Point - where the Moon and Earth's gravity cancel each other out out - so a spacecraft or station can remain stationary.
The cable from the station, dubbed the PicoGravity Laboratory (PGL), will drop down to a location on the Moon via an elevator positioned at an area called Sinus Medii, roughly in the middle of the face that looks towards Earth.
holy shite
Posted on 8/17/15 at 12:49 am to ksayetiger
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Oh helium is flammable. Under correct conditions of course.
no it's not.
Posted on 8/17/15 at 12:51 am to Jim Rockford
Worth noting that it's not a space elevator.
They still haven't solved the problem that no material can take the centrifugal force.
They still haven't solved the problem that no material can take the centrifugal force.
This post was edited on 8/17/15 at 12:52 am
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