Hi All Here's my first draft of the Space Elevator table.... PLANET MASS (kg) PERIOD (hr) RADIUS (m) Neptune 1.0243E+26 16.11 24764000 Uranus 8.6832E+25 17.24...
Hi Adam, ... Would you email that spreadsheet directly to me please? If others here would like a copy of it too, then I would be happy to upload it to a...
Hi Kerry and SE I'm happy to share it around, just no one copyright it as their own - it's basically maths and anyone can do it when they sit down with Excel...
Titan is full of HydroCarbons. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm? imageID=1163 Mankind canTheortically can do Atmospheric Mining. ...
... blogstop.net, that is. But the new blog in question is really at http://cosmicshootinggallery.blogspot.com/ -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/ obsolete...
... Galileo was crashed into Jupiter to eliminate any risk of contaminating Europa, which is thought to have an ocean under the ice where life could exist. For...
Hi SE Many of the Near Earth Asteroids are coated in kerogen rich "dust" - essentially oil-shale/asphalt - and are probably a lot easier to get to than Titan....
The messages involving these topics on this list have been very interesting and entertaining, and I've my spent time reading them, and would have a few things...
... Spoilsport :o) However, I feel the need to note that most of the message traffic on this list is usually from "off-topic" subjects that have at least, (at...
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NASA nurtures forward-looking inventors An interesting article on MSNBC about Jerome Pearson who has earned a $75,000 grant for his research into a lunar space...
There is a whole bunch of SE stuff at http://www.gizmonicsinc.com/ Anyone know anything about the company and their involvement? Cheers Kilian [Non-text...
From: millenial70 [mailto:bp164@...] "The messages involving these topics on this list have been very interesting and entertaining ... However, they are...
In not Titan, then why not use a mass driver powered by solar energy to push raw materials into a NEO for our newly cost-justified SE. More on Mass Drivers: ...
I thank you for the post on the yahoo group space settlers. I was thinking of forming a yahoo space stock interest group. With all the talk on twisting Carbon...
I have a question for the group. As a teenager at the Michigan state fair, I conducted a brief experiment. One of the rides was this big revolving drum that ...
... I believe the problem happened because you *moved* your head. It's near impossible to keep it steady in such a position, without support. ... It depends...
I dont know what the tensile strength of woven nanoyarn is, but I seriously doubt it's of the same order of magnitude that would be needed for an operational...
Hi SE He also has his own company web-site up now, Carbon Designs... http://www.nanotubecomposites.com/index.html ...though there's not too much online just...
Hi Allan, I had the same thing in mind. I remember that ride, too. The question I asked earlier had an interesting response from Karikarhi. Check out the...
I believe one of their employees is a SE enthusiast and convinced the company to pick the SE as a corporate hobby. For a while they had some good ideas, like...
That's the billion dollar question. For conflicting opinions, see http://www.liftport.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144 As measured, CNT itself is strong enough...
Hi Al, As a fellow experimental revolvonaut, at a fair in my youth, I certainly can empathize with your nausea at raising your head, nasty experience that....
... Tractor pull, natch. Seriously, would the sport be primarily about the athlete, with the CNT item as a prop, like a hammer throw using CNT instead of...
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Please don't quote entire threads. ... The reaction mass would likely be in small enough chunks to burn up. As for throwing the asteroid itself .. I wonder...
Hi Keith, I've seen recent post on other sites that have mainstream chaps pooh poohing the SE as a pipe dream, stating that that they will wake up and/or stop...
1) There's an excellent cost analysis here for an SE. It came in at around $6.2BN US. Economics Homework already done. ....some $90m will be needed for the...