... Balancing the sling will be a walk in the park once you've balanced that 100 mile tower... Seriously, all it takes is a counterweight. The tower will have...
there are many different thins that cant be over come on of them is centrificle force which will be another huge factor. You know the earth wont stop spinning...
... You are correct in that the amount of tension on the cable of a space elevator is the biggest engineering concern. People have jokingly called such a...
... Add to that the difficulty of making perfect nanotubes. There was a paper out a while back that pointed out that the expected defects in nanotubes would...
... That's an interesting idea. Your standard "4 in 1" chainmail as used for armor is designed to spread force laterally across it's surface rather than to...
I assume someone has already responded to this, but I want to anyway. The space-elevator isn't hurt by centripetal force, it wouldn't work without it. On a...
It is very likely that the sharp bending at the "links" of any chain mail or knitting will do as much or greater damage to strength than the defects we are...
... rope. ... Ropes break so ensure at least 3 separate strands are used. That way if one breaks the other two (or more) strands can take the weight. Andrew...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Centrifugal) Jump to: navigation, search Centrifugal force (from Latin centrum "centre" and fugere...
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/071212-tw-space-tether.html "On Sept. 25, hundreds of students worldwide watched remotely as a Russian-built Foton-M3...
I see by table 1 in http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/1032Pearson.pdf that as of three years ago, filament materials were available that...
... Andreas's posting does not say, but is consistent with, two things. One, the tensile-strength-to-density ratio that is available in filaments is also...
Based on the wikipedia article an orbital ring space elevator would cost 15 Billion in 1980 USD. In today dollars that would be something like 40 to 50 billion...
In a message dated 2/3/2008 9:53:13 P.M. Central Standard Time, hcm1955@... writes: "orbital ring space elevator would cost 15 Billion in 1980 USD. In...
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... I think that the orbital ring would be really rather susceptible to micrometeorites and other space debris due to its large size. The launch loop, because...
Based on IslandOne ( http://www.islandone.org/LEOBiblio/SPBI127.HTM ), the orbital ring weighs 10^8 tons, which at a generous $1000 per kg would cost $10^14 to...
Ooops, it just came to me that based on the record of the previous two, a thousand Bush administrations could conceivably waste just about $10^14 on useless...
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_ring it would cost 15 billion USD in 1980's . I think the differnence is that materiel to build the rings...
Is WIKIPEDIA the "only place to find out what an orbital ring space orbit would cost? Phxrizn@... **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all...
... Well, there seems to be a reference. ... -- -Ian Woollard We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly imperfect world things...
No. One should go back to Paul Birche's orginal paper. This can be found at http://www.paulbirch.net/. Refer to "OrbitalRings-II-13" Look in section 6.2...
Myself not having time to read the entire paper page for scanned page, can anyone who has try to answer these questions: - How does he justify the 10 G$ figure...
Hey whats with all the ideas of impossibility?! how about some ideas that would help make this thing possible to make. Lets start giveing ideas that will help...
From: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0957-4484/18/45/455709/ "Abstract. This paper reports on oriented poly(vinyl alcohol)/single- walled carbon nanotube...
So, really this says they managed to increase the strength of PVA to about 880 MPa; which isn't *that* exciting. And it sounds a bit fishy, why didn't they try...
I misunderstood, then the tape will not a take a load of 88Gpa? Bert ... alcohol)/single- ... mild ... as a ... cast ... drawing. ... of the ... strength of ...
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