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 Wikipedia is the only encyclopaedia that is not 10 years out of date.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...
Instead of debating the authenticity of Wikipedia, why not discuss and provide feedback to the orginal work Please refer to: http://www.paulbirch.net/. Refer...
Per Birch's Orbital Rings 1 -11( http://www.paulbirch.net), each meter of the ring will weigh about 8 kg ( 17.5 pounds). An Orbital Ring at 600 Km (360 miles)...
... The statistics on research shows that only about 1 in 20 projects succeed. So it's a really bad idea to hang an expensive project on it, in the hopes that...
So we should not even try because we will probably fail. I agree that, that type of thinking we will lead to failure. Or we could study other mega projects,...
From the Rotunda of the Administration Building for Panama Canal: "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or...
... Nah, the necessary CNT cable just doesn't exist right now. *Nobody* has any way to build a 1 mm diameter cable that is even 30 cm long of the necessary...
Let me push this discussion a little further with a challenge: Is anyone on this list up to discuss SE economics in a good presentation or the workshop in...
The Birch design doesn't require CNTs, it can be done with today's materiel, that is the point of the concept. The drawback is it is a more complicated system....
From a New Scientist article: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13771-simple-superlens-sharpens-focusing-power.html This could help with the beamed...
... Unfortunately not. Unless you were planning on a lens >~1000 km across... these kinds of lenses only work in the 'near field' where the lens is positioned...
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