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Space Elevator Group to Open Nanotube Factory
FleaPlus writes "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Universe Today report that the LiftPort Group, a consortium dedicated to commercially developing and constructing a space elevator, will be opening a carbon nanotube manufacturing plant in June of this year. The new facility has been dubbed LiftPort Nanotech. Many expect the LiftPort Group to be a front-runner in NASA's recently-announced Centennial Challenges competitions for space elevator technologies, which begin in September of this year."
Naturally, this elevator's music will be composed entirely of Star Trek themes.
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This is nothing new either, a Slashdotter tries too hard to make a funny first post, only to end up with something a few posts down the list, and completely unintelligable.
it doesnt actually lift space does it?
Yes it does, the roof of the elevator will lift anything on it's way. Including space.
Won't it be kinda boring? I mean, I always enjoyed going to a large skyscraper, pressing every button in the elevator from bottom to top, and then getting off at the very next floor, leaving any other poor bastards to wait as the elevators stops on every one of 84 floors. Not too many floors in space though. At least, not yet. I'm betting there'll be a McDonald's half way up by the time you or I get a ride.
The recently opened NanoFactory has been reported lost. Scientists are combing the floor near their desk to find the misplaced factory.
WTF?
Dude.
The elevators will be equitorial, for reasons
that would be obvious to even a 18th
century physicist.
They will MAKE the tubes in Bremerton. And
then they will use this advanced technology
called a "boat" to move the tubes to another
location for deployment, if it comes to that
(which it may not for decades...)
You might be familiar with this phenomenon
already, called "transportation".
It turns out people can manufacture
in one city, and move the goods to another.
(And here, all this time, you thought everything
you touch--planes, cars, clothes, food--were
made in your own city!)
Got it?
Now finish your milk and cookies. Nap time is
almost here.
I can't wait, if they actually build one of these, Space is going to be completely different from SciFi!
3,000-square-foot? I have a front yard bigger than that..
A typo? Or is this whole thing just a sad joke?
Hey, we're speaking of *NANO* tubes here.
- "They misunderestimated me."
Well IANAPABPOOS (I am not a prude of acronyms but play one on Slashdot), but these IANA acronyms are getting out of hand, if you're only going to use it once, explain it, then throw it away it's a waste of time.
Besides your acronym is no acronym it's a city in Madagascar.
You know what, forget I ever posted this...
...all major space elevator lines will show live broadcasts of Conan O'Brian.
It will turn into grey goo that takes over the world. I for one welcome our nanowaste overlords.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Somehow the thought of an elevator that plays "It's been a long road gettin' from there to here" doesn't sound great for customer satisfaction ;)
a small counterweight in space.
How big a counterweight are we talking about here? Because if you're thinking of using a whale and a flowerpot, that's probably not going to work
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Obviously you don't understand, it's all part of the vast nerd-wing conspiracy to gradually increase the number of generally recognized acronyms, until every possible sentence can be Reduced To A Single Word (RTASW). This will cut down on discussion bandwidth by 80%, and the resulting efficiency advantage will allow Slashdot to Dominate The Internet Forever (DTIF).
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.