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Highlift Systems' Space Elevator In The News Again
Kris_J writes "Highlift Systems may have found a second location for the anchor of their space elevator -- Perth, Western Australia. Apparently we have the calm waters and international airport that it needs, amongst other things. Slashdot has covered this company's efforts before: Oct 9, 2002 and, earlier, August 13, 2002, but it's worth discussing again since '[recent funding] has been given momentum by the Columbia shuttle disaster.'"
you know some jack ass is going to press the buttons for floors 1 -100,000
Willy Wonka would love this!
Perth also has an extremely large sanatorium to cater for the elevator musak induced madness
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See the world is round and Australia is at the bottom of it. So by putting it in Australia it can just kinda dangle off of earth into space (being that Australia is down under and all).
I hope the clears it all up (or down as the case may be) for you.
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"But with a start-up cost of $17 billion, the idea needs strong US and Australian government support."
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I don't know about a space elevator (it is a cool idea and hopefully it will actually happen) but how in the world are we expected to believe that a 100,000 km long elevator will work if they still can't get the simple 20 store elevators to always run smoothly. I constantly see broken elevators at work and in many buildings, hell it would suck to get stuck in an elevator 80km above ground, I can just see it: a dark room with 6 people and some lagguage. Everything is going ok and all of a sudden, 40hours after lift off - shebang, nothing works! So they reach for the emergency phone: -Hello? Hello? Anybody out there? I don't think we are moving any more! Anybody at all? Anybody!
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Just like the usual, the mechanics are off for today. It would sure suck to hang up there held by a f...ng thread
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I think they will have to choose the music for this elevator VERY carefully. I mean, how long will it take to get up there? You don't want people to go insane and stuff.
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Although, it would make for a REALLY good tv-movie.
It's a slightly concerning fact that WA has a royalcommission.wa.gov subdomain ;)
What happened to Sri Lanka? I thought the goal was to get as close to the equator as practical.
No, Sri Lanka was to get it as close to Arthur C. Clarke as possible.
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Question: The article mentions having a cable some 100,000 kms long. Uh, wouldn't that lap the planet a few times? What would keep (or cause) a Gary Larsonesque tragedy from occuring?
Seriously, don't you think they would have considered things like that before heavily funding this space elevator?
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For technical reasons this only works when the bottom of the elevator ribbon is suspended a few feet about a small wicker basket; however, the idea is sound.
This also alludes to the second problem in keeping the elevator vertical - once the material strength issues are solved, you still need to find someone who can play the flute indefinitely without stopping. The Perth placement is partly designed to take advantage of the circular breathing techniques developed and perfected by the local didgeridoo players.
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