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 Wikipedia is the only encyclopaedia that is not 10 years out of date.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...
Very apt. However, among the cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat, one was omitted: The one who dreams up bold and daring schemes and then...
I am not completely sure who if anyone in particular is being referred to as "The one who dreams up bold and daring schemes and then leaves it to another to...
It was meant simply to balance the text you quoted. While it rightfully elevates the doers, it beats too much on the critics and ignores the dreamers. Each has...
I agree all three types are necessary. Since I tend to be basically optimist about this type of stuff, I tend to not give the critics an equal weight. Bert ......
Well, the Panama Canal was a complete disaster that failed utterly and led to the financial ruin of a lot of investors. I am refering to the French attempt to...
The French tried to designed the Panama Canal, after the Suez design which was a mistake. Key things that evenually lead to the US success: 1.Lock system,...
Probably the most irresponsible means of deciding to mount a project is to use "statistics" as an argument as shown below. Let this be a lesson of how NOT to...
As a public health worker with some experience with asbestos-related disease, I can give you a few particulars which might help the engineering and physics...
Brad Walsh
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... particle sizes. Above a few microns in size, particles can be captured by cilia and mucous and eventually swept out of the body. Very small particles...
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