SOME OPTIONS: Make Junk Into Cable I beleive there may be enough orbiting junk that can be melted down and reprocess for making a starter orbital ring space...
... One of the reasons these proposals continue to stay at the level of obscure web list posts is nobody is generating a formal proposal for funding. Whether...
Jerry Irvine
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Nov 10, 2009 4:41 pm
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Wheel video posted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOYFrTUEvss And my rocket design, intended for launching the Temporary Space Elevator for $ 3,000/pound....
... Practical? Sure, except for some minor details here and there, such as mining the asteroids and erecting a major industrial facility in LEO. Piece of cake,...
... Details :) -- Jerry Irvine, Box 1242, Claremont, CA 91711 USA - <mail to: 01rocket@...>...
Jerry Irvine
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Nov 10, 2009 8:55 pm
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... Please give me $40B and I will make an entirely green field technical project and it will work. Trust me. Now I may trust you. But consider this. Ares...
Jerry Irvine
01rocket@...
Nov 10, 2009 10:01 pm
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In your video it looks like your drive ribbon moves 8.75 ft for each 6.5 feet of elevator rise. The drive ribbon thus moves faster than the cab, right? In your...
You have not addressed my comment that the drive ribbon in your video is faster than the cab, contrary to your design, where it is 100 times slower. ... ...
I not to to be rude, but I think that is funny. Did you get a response from any of these space agencies? BTW how many space agencies have a 40B budget?...
I would like to see a pull down let go elevator. Like you do with a kite. No energy to bring objects to space and can be really FAST if you want it to be! ;-)...
... Unfortunately I do not have that kind of money at the moment to give away, but I will give you this: Modify your toy elevator to have the drive belt go...
... Nope. Zero. Nada. Nothing. So far. ... That's not per year....that's the total. I need $ 3 B/yr for 15 years. And not from Nasa, or the US, but from...
Any regular old winch would do... The main problem is that this is good for at most a few hundred kilometers. Good for tourists to enjoy the view, and some...
This one doesn't play for me. It wants me to create an account or something, which I don't care for. I'd love to see it though, if you could put it up the same...
Never, mind, I got the video. Sorry, still not even close. I will remark four things: 1) The schematic is substantially different form the Christmas ribbon...
It is sad so few people realize which has been said again and again: Getting to orbit is all about the speed, not about the distance. Yes, you can lift...
... I believe "stations" with unique segments between them makes it practical with current materials. Jerry -- Jerry Irvine, Box 1242, Claremont, CA 91711 USA...
Jerry Irvine
01rocket@...
Nov 14, 2009 6:03 pm
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I don't think you are talking about the "letting out" idea anymore? Anyway, stations make no difference, they just hurt if they introduce extra, non-carrying,...
The key to our continued survival is for some of us to leave the Earth in a big way and to spread self supporting colonies throughout the Solar System and...
IIRC, not only were the final SaturnV units destroyed, but also all the tooling, documentation, etc. that would be required to start building the units again....