I'll try to stay on topic. :-) And please pardon me if I am rehashing past episodes since I am relatively new here. Regarding SE Digest Number 195: Pilgrim...
... I'm not sure. *Part* of your question is essentially what the safety factor of the system should be, and how to allow for "graceful failure" modes. I'm not...
Hi everyone, I’ve read about the advantages of a sea based platform for the SE. And that ’s fine for a short term construction of the first small Space...
... Bucky Fuller has some interesting things to say about this. (see http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/synergetics.html , & other works there. thank...
... You can actually keep the base fixed and put a one degree westerly lean on the elevator cable simply by sending an elevator up the cable. Or an easterly...
instead of just one elevator, i propose twelve as a better goal. with twelve tensegrity (btw) towers arranged as the radial vectors of a vector-equilibrium ...
do you think you could sketch that out? I for one can't visualize that. ... From: charles f zeitler <cfzeitler@...> To: space-elevator@yahoogroups.com ...
If I understand this post, they're describing something that would look a little like a spider web, with 12 equally spaced SE's radiating outward from earth...
Brad Walsh
epibeemie@...
Jan 6, 2003 1:55 pm
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And yes, Lucio, I almost added before, if forced to name an equatorial region in which to place a land-base SE, I would insist on South America, either Brazil...
Brad Walsh
epibeemie@...
Jan 6, 2003 2:09 pm
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... Whoa! One mega-engineering task at a time, please! ... If by "tensegrity" you mean free-standing towers that contain both tensile and compressive elements,...
... Well, why *isn't* it a good solution for a more ambitious project? It seems to me this is one of the many places Edward's succeeded in thinking outside the...
... Heh, you're assuming the rest of us *want* it under the US sphere of influence. No offence intended, but I don't necessarily think that's an assumption. To...
In a message dated 1/6/2003 12:28:14 PM Central Standard Time, ... If most of the money to build it comes from the US, then by rights it should be under their...
GEddieA95@...
Jan 6, 2003 8:21 pm
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... As a person who seeks launch permits for a living I can assure you USA jurisdiction is at minimum the most restrictive and most time delaying of all...
Jerry Irvine
01rocket@...
Jan 6, 2003 9:35 pm
1411
first, a couple of links to illustrate the ve: http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s08/figs/f4115a.html ...
... From: GEddieA95@... To: space-elevator@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [space-elevator] Land based tower In a...
In a message dated 1/6/2003 6:45:40 PM Mountain Standard Time, ... According to reports from the SE confrence, the ESA, and EU are very interested in it too....
RanulfC@...
Jan 7, 2003 3:09 am
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... The new world order has arrived. Blame Bush, Clinton and Bush. It will be funded internationally, managed by foreign nationals, and be purchased time on...
Jerry Irvine
01rocket@...
Jan 7, 2003 4:06 am
1416
Re: [space-elevator] Digest Number 198 ... I don't think system performance is the question here. This has to do with the cable being severed. You can...
... Our ancestors once had to battle the property ownership requirement in order to vote. Now in effect only corporate stock ownership gives one any say over...
Brad Walsh
epibeemie@...
Jan 7, 2003 3:05 pm
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... From: "Brad Walsh" <epibeemie@...> To: <space-elevator@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [space-elevator] let's...
In a message dated 1/7/2003 11:57:11 AM Central Standard Time, ... A sea-based SE would be far easier for Americans to control, because the US Navy is...
GEddieA95@...
Jan 7, 2003 6:01 pm
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... Thank you. That was roughly how I was picturing it, but it's nice to see we're talking about the same thing. ... Why? What do you gain out of this...
... Very well, but you have to do more than *claim* jurisdiction - can it be inforced in this case? Also, keep in mind that for a Edwards-class SE, it only...
... Jack Williamson described a related idea in "Designing a Dyson Sphere" (Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1976, reprinted in <The Endless Frontier vol II>...
... with the cable being severed. You can calculate the odds of that happening all you want, but in the end it either breaks or it doesn't. Not exactly. The...
... Nonsense. At the very least the elevator cars can certainly be designed to survive a cut elevator cable. Upto halfway along the cable, the elevators...
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