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Lunar Space Elevator Instead?

Posted by michael on from the think-big dept.

koa writes "We have all seen articles on building a Space Elevator on the earth, how about this article about experimenting with the Moon first since the technology we have available to us is sufficient, as the Moon's gravity is 1/6th that of Earth's (the cable weight would require less exotic materials such as carbon nano-tubes). One could make a very good argument for commercialization of Space if getting materials to and from the Moon's surface was vastly cheaper and easier."

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  1. Interesting by Sv-Manowar · · Score: 5, Funny

    This theory has been investigated in depth in a recent book, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=014032870X/ 002-2420335-1812868

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    Business Voyeur
  2. Lunar Space Elevator? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bah! The idea is pure lunacy.

  3. Re:Uranus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Everybody knows this joke is outdated and boring, besides, it's going to be renamed to urectum in a few years time because of that.

  4. Spaced Elevator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thirty years to build at a cost of $600 Billion, and one of the myriad asteroids zipping through the Earth-Moon orbit would take it out in about 1.5 milliseconds.

    I'd rather light $20 bills on fire.