... I only asked because, while reading it, I got that sense of deja vue all over again . . . brian...
Brian Dunbar
Brian.Dunbar@...
Jan 2, 2004 7:19 pm
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A basic thing people need to understand about the SE is how it's held up. One way to demonstrate this would be to attach a ribbon to the equator of a...
Hi Greg, ... If you take 2 masses and deploy them to 10km vertically very fast (so that the rotation due to the Coriolis effect doesn't have time to ...
... Or attach the ribbon to a horizontal disk spun by a motor and positioned at the bottom of a gravity well simulated by a large solid bell. The anchor could...
... held ... Interesting, but for my science fair project I just doing a study project. I am think of making a simple model of the elevator. Does anybody have...
How about a virtual model? There are freeware animation programmes available where you could make an animation of the Space Elevator. The construction would be...
The Bush administration is planning to announce a return visit to the moon with the establishment of a permanent colony (science station to start with) on the...
... So what are _you_ going to do about it? Assuming you're a US citizen, you have just as much business hassling your local Congress critter about what you...
Brian Dunbar
Brian.Dunbar@...
Jan 9, 2004 5:08 pm
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Hey Brian, I have already written letters to all of my congressional members as well as the governor and NASA. The problem is I am not someone on the inside...
... Or if you don't want to make the animation yourself, you could use the one ISR put together, available at http://www.isr.us/SEHome.asp. Ben Sibelman...
I think one needs a credible cost estimate of building a CNT tether that would support the SE. Since only lab samples are available, more work is needed to...
... to ... his ... mars. ... Oh great just what we need, another flags'n'footprints mission, something that will allow NASA to siphon hundreds of billions of ...
... Ah ... Liftport in the person of Michael Laine has _done_ that. I'm not a financial wizard, but it seemed like a doable document to me. ... Only if the...
Brian Dunbar
Brian.Dunbar@...
Jan 9, 2004 7:35 pm
3810
Dear members, I just wanted to take a moment to say how much I have enjoyed watching the space-elevator group grow and mature. We now have over 360 members,...
First things first, without NASA the SE will never exist. I know this as well as you do. They are the only ones with the funding and the ability to get the...
... After reading a few postings from other mail lists, and a few blog entries, I have to say it would be a damned shame if this announcement was denounced on...
Brian Dunbar
Brian.Dunbar@...
Jan 9, 2004 9:16 pm
3814
... That's not at all true. If the cost estimates are at all close (Dr. Edwards claimed 6-10 billion IIRC) there is enough private capital to fund the...
Brian Dunbar
Brian.Dunbar@...
Jan 9, 2004 9:28 pm
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... I agree with you completely, except for the letters "o", "u", and "t". NASA is terminally bureaucratic and organizationally moribund; there isn't a chance...
... I agree with you completely, except for the letters "o", "u", and "t". NASA is terminally bureaucratic and organizationally moribund; there isn't a chance...
... Fascinating .. what did Mr. Turner _say_ when you suggested it to him? If you can't detail I'd understand but it's intriguing. ~brian...
Brian Dunbar
Brian.Dunbar@...
Jan 9, 2004 10:49 pm
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... Since we actually can have no real idea of what it takes to deploy an SE, I seriously question your position. Until the materials to build and SE are ...
... Yet they funded and assisted in the initial studies and have supported it since? ... I could probably argue that since I know of several that are worse.....
RanulfC@...
Jan 9, 2004 11:30 pm
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The one thing you folks seem to be missing. Yes there are other sources of funding; yes it can happen without NASA. However I have yet to see a single large...
You're right, but we have to get the ball moving on this. Its not going to move itself. We have got to start pushing on it now and get the rest of the...
... Jeez, where did that come from? Are you perhaps a faithful reader of the WSJ editorial page? ... Not a thing; I just don't think that NASA could do it....
... That's a joke. I wouldn't bet on DARPA being able to build a rocket that would fly. ... We build satellites all the time at DoE (and predecessors) that...
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