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Space Elevator Going Up
Adlopa writes "The
Guardian newspaper reports on scientists' efforts to realise the space elevator, as first described by Arthur C Clarke in his 1979 novel 'Fountains of Paradise'. Advances in materials science mean that 'a cable reaching up as far as 100,000km from the surface of the Earth' is no longer an impossibility and 70 scientists and engineers are discussing the idea at a conference in Santa Fe today."
"Published in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke's recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not necessarily liking what they find. The religious images that run throughout Clarke's work also are present here." - Amazon
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When Islamic terrorists fly a couple of planes into this?
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
i just shat myself
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God Bless America, and thank God I don't have to live there.
you wish
The other end would be attached to an orbiting object in space acting as a counterweight, the momentum of which would keep the cable taut and allow vehicles to climb up and down it.
Now... what the hell is the other object going to be that is going to act as a counterweight? Wouldnt the damned thing need to be comprable in mass to the earth... or atleast the earth, minus the weight change due to the rotation?
Thats one bloody huge paperweight!
Sorry this sounds like pure sci/fi... glad to see nasa isnt wasting taxpayers money anymore...
Well, a few of those and let me tell you, I had to take a dump something awful. This guy asks if I'm ready to launch a satellite and I'm "Boy, am I ever!" though I'd never heard that euphemism before.
So I get to the top and there ain't no can or anything, but by then I really had to go, so I just let it fly, and now the fucking thing's in orbit somewhere over Miami. Or -- it was.
See, I got this fucking huge bill from NASA and it's going to bankrupt me, but that ain't all. See, these guys from the Hubble observatory call and they're all "You set a collision orbit and got schmeck on the lens!" which meant another expensive bill still, but then they had to twist the knife -- "By the way, after looking at this closely (what else could we look at now?) we think you've got worms."
Damn!!!
So I'm off to the doc, and he's all pulling on his rubber glove and there goes another space probe and all of my pride with it while I'm squirming on the table.
Only high point of my whole space elevator affair was that the ass doc sent me flowers the next day. "From irc.efnet.net #gnaa -- hello.jpg to you!"
Arrange it so that the part that will fall will obliterate Mecca. Problem solved.
Okay, done. What's the next step?
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The rest of the middle east
If the pentagon was hit with a truck bomb, and not a plane, then where the hell did the plane go?
:(
On 9/11, after it becaime clear that the united states was under attack by people using commercial airplanes as bombs, the news made an obvious announcement: A general of the airforce ordered any plane not responding to the order to get the hell away would be shot down.
Later in the day, a spokesperson from the whitehouse said that that general did not have the authority to issue such an order, and that under no circumstances would the US military ever shoot US civilians.
where the hell did the plane go?
I don't know.
But I know why they needed a cover story.
Its so you won't ask that question: They premptively gave you an awnser, before you ever thought to ask the question.
And its not like they never lied to you before, or since.
You can't take the sky from me...
The plane that hit the pentagon also didn't have 50-70 stories to continue moving away from the crash site before being stopped by the ground. At the pentagon, any remnants of the plane would be right there.
Your credit card information wants to be free.
Personally, I believe the cuts to the Air Marshalls and lack of Airport security may be a clever ploy to enduce another terrorist attack through which he can justify another attack on another defenseless nation like Libya.
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