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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... I hope that I've said the latter rather than the former, but I've made this point so many times that I may well have said both things. ... Humm, I hope you...
This looks very good to me. I may be mistaken, but I think the reason that the numbers don't change with the safety factor is that the safety factor is...
... I meant "mythical", in the sense of "heard of, but never seen". Of course, now I am forced to change this to "fabulous", in the sense of "gorgeous" or...
I have taken the liberty to fix the Bug Bob mentioned and also to add a number of results that bear on the feasibility of the SE. In particular, I added...
Hi Andreas, When I clicked on the link you gave I got a 'page cannot be found' note. Best wishes, Andy Nimmo. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
This kind of large initial investment is not all that uncommon. The same can be said for constucting a large building, the Transcontinental Railroad, the...
For years we have been hearing about how bad cars are for the environment. I work in the aviation industry and the latest buzz is how bad planes are for the...
I'm a "semi-green" (read: practical green) person, and I've been thinking all along that solar should be considered for the space elevator. Of course, as a...
... I don't know, Andreas, you're making quite a few assumptions that are different from what I'd pick, some speeding it up (that I'd call optimistic) and some...
In a message dated 6/11/2007 10:20:35 A.M. Central Daylight Time, musthavemorestuff@... writes: So, is it safe to conclude that the elevator will be...
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