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 ...
... No, definitely not. They're referring the strength increase back; but I don't think that that is necessary valid- composites often have different...
... Yes ... or even if it were just a DVD. I was beginning to be excited for a moment, too, but the words "as high as" jumped out at me, along with the...
... [snip] ... There are 200 yard Kevlar ropes on sale. <http://www.pelicanrope.com/new03.htm> Google for ropes made out of a. Aramid (Kevlar or Twaron) b....
... Following this suggestion for Twaron, I'm led through Wikipedia to a good article here: http://www.cranestodaymagazine.com/story.asp?storycode=2047050 It...
The NSS team just finished a very busy weekend, where we demonstrated our prototype climber for BBC Science. A video showing one of the climbs can be seen at: ...
... Congratulations. I found the video to be very intimidating. ;) It makes me feel like a calendar just hit me over the head. Brian Turner Captain KC Space...
If Wikipedia is the best you can do, then the basis for discussion is, well... nonsense. Any clown can put almost anything in Wikipedia, any other clown can...
... Wikipedia is the only encyclopaedia that is not 10 years out of date. When your best argument is that the source is Wikipedia then you have lost. Andrew...
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