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Space Elevators Going Up
MikShapi writes "CBC is running a new piece on the Space Elevator. Nothing dramatically new, as we're all still waiting for one of the many Carbon Nanotube research centers to announce they reached the famous 100GPa red line from page 10 of the NIAC Phase 2 Report, thus obtaining 'unobtainium' [pun intended], the material necessary to build the Elevator. The report predicts this will happen during the course of the next two years or so. It's then that the fun really starts - A REAL all-out space race, open to everyone with will and a national budget, winner probably getting to own space [read last paragraph]. In the meanwhile, we can all spread the word, discuss, debate and brainstorm every nook and cranny of the program here on Slashdot, and give Edwards a shoulder by giving the program every bit of mass-exposure we can."
Not only you failed to achieve first post, but also you posted it under your real name, and earned a good downmod! Way to go! Is that the smell of karma burning?
It's friday night and you're posting idiotic comments on slashdot.
Very sad.
For the record I am temporarily disabled and unable to go out tonight so I'm making myself feel better by making fun of losers such as yourself.
taco!
I would suggest ejecting the Indian tectonic plate into space and using it as a kite.
Kill 1 billion birds with one stone.
Sounds like a politician's cheap exit when valid points ring too loud. Change up your story to not seem like the schmuck that you are. I read the WHOLE thread and whorfin...
YOU are a fuckin twit and threat to evolution.
Did you bother to look up one of those odds before trying to do damage control to your proclaiment of ignorance?
SO:
"There's a 1/100,000 chance of being destroyed by the leonids in any one of the 'minor' leonid years. And this is ignoring all of the other mundane risks such as cumulative damage by oxidation and the like."
Is just the same as:
"1/625 possibility of 'severe damage' (aka destruction) from the 2031 Leonid Shower is a pretty damn big risk, if you ask me. I imagine that every nation that might get smacked by falling debris would have an objection to this ever going up on this basis alone."
Even got the illiterate shit for brains moderators fooled, must suck to have people be able to read and comprehend still when you're trying to cover up your stupidity with double talk.