should the world build an elevator to outerspace?

[Devastation]

it might take a while

 

[ziggyziggy]

Why the fuck not, I've got nothing better to do.

Zig

 

[eat big]

It would require funding from every country and take forever.

Shuttles are still cheaper IMO.

 

[vansmack2000]

Read an article about it once, said they have some sort of material now that could actually stand the forces/weight to support that long of an elevator. Just not much of it and it would cost $$$$ to do it.

 

[H_T_]

i wonder how wide it would have to be. in order to remain stable, know what i mean? you couldn't have an 8ft. wide 60 mile high structure. a pelican could knock it over.

 

[jnevin]

elevator of Bable? Bobble? Babel? Curling's going to give you the Jebus smackdown after he's done with the sex show for his kids.

 

[ziggyziggy]

One of the biggies in material science right now is carbon nanotubes. They are strong, light, and can be produced at a rate now that is almost astonishing. Give it another 5 - 10 years, and they will be reinforcing almost all new, large scale construction.

Zig

 

[H_T_]

ahhhh, the Tower of Babel........

 

[ziggyziggy]

ahhhh, the Tower of Babel........

Or the largest phallic symbol on the planet!

Zig

 

[eat big]

The thing would have to be so incredibly wide.

 

[H_T_]

Or the largest phallic symbol on the planet!

Zig

chicks dig that kind of stuff.

 

[spongebob]

i think it should be an esculator so you would have to wait for it to come back down.

 

[Mr. dB]

When we have the technology to make a tethered space elevator, and when we have a use for it, why the hell not?

 

[gotmilk]

Nah..let the aliens spend money on fuel to get here.

 

[redguru]

It could be done as long as you build it faster than 11,100 m/sec.

 

[jnevin]

It could be done as long as you build it faster than 11,100 m/sec.

So you're saying there's a chance...

 

[H_T_]

So you're saying there's a chance...

i desperately want to make love to a schoolboy.........

 

[UA_Iron]

It could be done as long as you build it faster than 11,100 m/sec.

why is that?

 

[H_T_]

why is that?

because of some old wives tale........

 

[gotmilk]

i desperately want to make love to a schoolboy.........

Michael....is that you?

 

[redguru]

So you're saying there's a chance...

Well, if you built it at that rate initially, you'd escape Earth's gravity and be in space. The farther away from the center of the earth's gravity the slower escape velocity has to be. That's why the idea of an orbiting Spacedock would be preferential for space travel, as craft leaving the station would require less energy to escape gravity.

Building a tower to space would be near impossible. Upper level winds would provide too much shear forces for the structure to be stable without a base wider than it is tall.

 

[UA_Iron]

Well, if you built it at that rate initially, you'd escape Earth's gravity and be in space. The farther away from the center of the earth's gravity the slower escape velocity has to be. That's why the idea of an orbiting Spacedock would be preferential for space travel, as craft leaving the station would require less energy to escape gravity.

Building a tower to space would be near impossible. Upper level winds would provide too much shear forces for the structure to be stable without a base wider than it is tall.

I can buy that.

"oh shit! the gulf stream shifted and hit our elevator...fuck!!!"

 

[Beachbum1546]

Well, if you built it at that rate initially, you'd escape Earth's gravity and be in space. The farther away from the center of the earth's gravity the slower escape velocity has to be. That's why the idea of an orbiting Spacedock would be preferential for space travel, as craft leaving the station would require less energy to escape gravity.

Building a tower to space would be near impossible. Upper level winds would provide too much shear forces for the structure to be stable without a base wider than it is tall.

party pooper

 

[Spartacus]

send the evacuees

 

[gotmilk]

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant would have to reunite for a new single

 

[theoak01]

Yes

 

[sublime35]

I think they need to try to build that cross continental underwater subway system. that would be friggin awesome. You could get from london to new york in like 45 mins I think.

 

[redguru]

I think they need to try to build that cross continental underwater subway system. that would be friggin awesome. You could get from london to new york in like 45 mins I think.

Now, there's a decent engineering Idear

 

[UA_Iron]

Now, there's a decent engineering Idear

true, the physicist would not have the means to build such a thing.

 

[redguru]

true, the physicist would not have the means to build such a thing.

Your average physicist can't take a dump without having a theorum.

 

[UA_Iron]

Your average physicist can't take a dump without having a theorum.

that and what they designed would cost 3x10^18 $$$

 

[UA_Iron]

where the F is samoth to back up his fellow physicists??

 

[Spartacus]

samoth is my alter
I confess
it's not possible

 

[redguru]

that and what they designed would cost 3x10^18 $$$

First, they'd have to schmooze the dean and the alumni association to fund a feasibility study and add a new wing to the Sciences building.

 

[redguru]

Bumping for the presence of

 

[samoth]

Everyone else already took the funny one-liners, so I really don't have anything to contribute to this thread.

And to everyone dissing the physicists, you just be thankful that nathan isn't here. That's right. Pants.

 

[UA_Iron]

Everyone else already took the funny one-liners, so I really don't have anything to contribute to this thread.

And to everyone dissing the physicists, you just be thankful that nathan isn't here. That's right. Pants.

is/was nathan a physicist?

 

[redguru]

is/was nathan a physicist?

Isn't that Spongebob's sidekicks?

 

[samoth]

How can none of you know who nathan is? Damn, I feel old or something. He was possibly one of the wittiest posters ever to grace EF. He was an astrophysics major in Canada... started grad school and kinda dissappeared.

You plat guys should do a member search for him. Great material.

 

[Spartacus]

is/was nathan a physicist?

nathan=samoth
simple equatino

 

[redguru]

How can none of you know who nathan is? Damn, I feel old or something. He was possibly one of the wittiest posters ever to grace EF. He was an astrophysics major in Canada... started grad school and kinda dissappeared.

You plat guys should do a member search for him. Great material.

Will do. I have to figure out what makes you guys tick, besides grants and the cyclonic action coin donation thingy at the mall.

 

[samoth]

nathan=samoth
simple equatino

I could never do that many drugs and still graduate with honors.

And he was far, far funnier than I. Probably from the drugs, but hey.