... will the passengers no longer feel weightless (forgetting the effects of deceleration for the moment)?<< I think they would experience a continuous...
... Why not? Of course, the mass of the shielding required will force the volume of the passenger space to be very small, say about the size of those Japanese...
... SE never ... weight) ... vomit-comet at the top ... get to GEO, if they ... about 6600 ... We can ... astronauts had no ... However, we ... hangs ... with...
... I think for the purposes of this story I will have to assume some advancement in shielding technology. The SE doesn't have to be huge, but larger than is...
I just want to thank everyone for the swift response. You have allayed my fears about lack of gravititational forces making my story unworkable. The other...
... Ballistic re-entry is a pretty safe way to get from there to here. There has been one re-entry accident and Columbia suffered her fatal wound on ascent. ...
... That depends on the size of the ribbon. If we're talking about the tourist trade, we have to assume that the elevator has been up for quite some time, and...
... At least two methods have been mentioned on this trip. One is using standard magnetic technology -- think of a rail gun, coil gun, mass driver, or...
... <hcm1955@y...> ... takes ... short ... the ... a ... is a ... for ... So you understand the conductive properties of a yet to be built CNT based ribbon....
... No, I understand that 1) nothing but a superconductor could possibly carry enough current over SE distances to drive a climber and/or sustain maglev fields...
... I see that it may not be as cut and dried as I thought, but since the story will only work on the trip down, I guess I'll just have to assume that reentry...
... Most assuredly not true. You need low resistance, but not zero resistance. Also, one conduction mode is for the electrons to be ballistically sent down the...
... When I was working on an energy article with Rick Smalley last summer, and talking over his company's/Rice's NASA contract for CNT wiring samples using...
... You don't have to believe me. I sent some links to organizations like IEEE. ... Not clear yet, certainly. Worth some study, though. ... Most likely, the...
... There needs to be a) demand and b) capital to build more ribbons than the first two. It does no good to throw up a baker's dozen if you don't have the ...
Monte, you're shouting at the rain. ... House plants? I heard it will biodegrade into Viagra. Consider the symbolism. Of course, if CNT does miraculously...
... Oh the warp drive works. Bad news - you have to be 45 AU from our sun for it work. Note if this is true the first reaction would be mixed. Thanks, Lord, ...
... The next twelve will be cheaper than the first two. ... The company that puts up the first ribbon will be able to turn a profit by selling the next dozen....
... There is nothing miraculous about it. Did you read the articles? Does IEEE have any credibility with you? ... Good point. We'll see what actually...
... HORIZONTAL maglev systems have been built; I'm not aware of any VERTICAL ones. (Notwithstanding the vaporware Toshiba building elevator.) In a horizontal...
Just a note here... ... The only one of the above having ANY problems with launches right now is NASA and that's manned spacecraft of a certain type that is...
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... Well there maybe several reasons why you wouldn't want to cover the desert in solar panels. 1. It's and endangered natural habitat and protected by law. (...
... I like to insert qualifiers - "should be" and "probably" are in heavy rotation at the moment. Cheaper, probably. But not something we (or whomever) will...
... I didn't say OUR desert. There's plenty of desert in the world that doesn't have anything living on it. There's also a lot of rooftops. And oceans. ... ...
... profit ... will be a ... Actually, given the amount of time it will take to get the SE built once it gets started (i.e. when the manufacturing begins), I...
... else ... an 'instant' ... companies ... NOT be ... lost along ... You do make a good point, so it's a good thing, in a way, that we won't be able to build...
... the ... The desrts may be better use if used for food production. If a Lunar and Mars bases are set up within 25 to 50 years then the first SE may not be...
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