LiftPort http://www.liftport.com/ has a Liftoff Clock that reads T- 24 YEARS! I'm sorry, but I am in my 50's and not in the best of health. I would like to...
did you guys see this? http://www.netcomposites.com/news.asp?4357 ... Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ...
Hello Herbert, Recently Liftport forged a really profitable deal with a company based in Malta for the construction of an aerial tramway. It was close held...
I'm sorry to have to break this to you Alex, but this was an April Fool's joke. Note the name of the material - Lirpa Loof - and spell it backwards. ...
This week I posted this request on the NSS group for SE. I have decide to open up to a bigger audience. Post follows: I talked to Michael Laine this week about...
What Ed is said very true. The request for volunteer help is to help LiftPort bounce back. Two key areas that Liftport will focus on: Thier ballon projects: ...
... Guys, My post on the LiftPort blog was a link and block quote from an article written on April 1. The give away is "The new super cable, known as ’Lirpa...
Hello Brian, I fell for that April's Fool joke hook line and sinker. Next time I should read such postings more carefully and with a critical eye. I firmly...
Just a quick note ************* LiveScience's Image of the Day Friday May 11, 2007 Record-Breaking Nanotubes "Materials scientists have grown 2-centimeter-long...
Please read my evaluation on the feasibility of space elevators here: http://www.draaisma.net/space-tourism/moon_base_landing.php Now, I know that I'm not...
Niclas, Space elevators are under tension, not compression, so they need only the tensile strength that a single cable can provide. This is because the other...
... I myself don't call people who disagree cranks or unpopular or arrogant. Everyone has a valid opinion and honest disagreement leads to better discourse and...
... Your two paragraphs on the space elevator prove beyond reasonable doubt that you have no idea what you are talking about and have made no effort to...
The Space Elevator will be very difficult to built, to be sure, but it is probably not impossible. "The Difficult, we do immediately. The Impossible takes a ...
Niclas, You missed on a few very important points in your critique of the space elevator concept. 1.) As mentioned in an earlier reply the ribbon would be in...
Hi Jolly Roger, I like your technician's motto. Back in my early days when I was young, my late Uncle who was chairman of Rowan & Boden ships furnishing and in...
Yes, same basic idea. ... that's an ... Here's another one I saw in "Omni" magazine a few years back: "Fast - Cheap - Good : Pick Two." The basic idea is that...
Hello, Havn’t been following developments as much as I would have liked to recently. Can anyone bring me up to speed on where the maximum measured tensile...
Wow! Let's send this conversation up on the Elevator! I.e., elevate it. Best wishes, Andy. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
FYI http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/06/03/1648214.shtml -- Jerry Irvine, Box 1242, Claremont, CA 91711 USA - <http://www.usrockets.com><mail to:...
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Would you like have one end of the elevator touching Earth? near a ship or something? Or are you planning to have the lower end of the elevator passing over...
Right off, I'm more of an ex-scientist (retired) than a strength-of-materials engineer, so I hope this question has merit. Does the 'ribbon' have to have the...
I think that the tensile strength of the material needs to be extremely high all along its length (a chain is only as strong as its weakest link). However, it...
... We really have to stop saying these things that imply there's some relationship between the "center of gravity/mass" of the SE and GEO, or that the SE is...
Center of mass is a well-defined physical concept ( http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/CenterofMass.html ), and in the case of a space elevator it is...
... All I can conclude from this definition is that the center of mass is a vertical line running the length of the SE from the anchor to the counterweight, in...
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