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Space Elevator Gets FAA Clearance
lonesome phreak writes "Techzonez has a short piece about the recent FAA waiver received by the LiftPort Group allowing them to conduct preliminary tests or their high altitude robotic lifters. The lifters are early prototypes of the technology that the company is developing for use in its commercial space elevator to ferry cargo back and forth into space."
Just imagine the massive migranes you are going to get when you have to listen to musak for some tens of thousands of miles
There is no sig
..all the way to space.
What could possibly go wrong?
Take THAT Led Zeppelin!
Welcome our heavly lifting space overlords by pressing all the buttons in the elevator before leaving.
great idea, all we need to do is invent the technology , im not holding my breath
perhaps the bookies should be taking bets
Fusion Power
Space Elevator
Perpetual Motion
Duke Nukem Forever
Microsoft Linux
...and there's no one there to smell it, does it stink?
IronChefMorimoto
I hate to be the person that gets stuck on the 900,304,564,282,012,373 floor. :(
When is Six Flags building one? And will the speedpass be valid for it?
God Fucking Damnit
We don't have any investors,
We don't have a product,
But we do have in-principle government approval!
Woooo!
I'd be betting the following anounts that it'll come to fruition within 100 years..
Fusion Power: $1000
Space Elevator: $10
Microsoft Linux: $3
Perpetual Motion: $2
Duke Nukem Forever: 1 cent
... I'd get in on the bottom floor and some kid would hit EVERY button.
The biggest problems are keeping it together, and keeping it protected from harm, like accidently hitting it in a plane, or lightning strikes. It could become a terrorist target.
Whoa, it'll take years to build it. By then, we will have won the war on terror.
This just in: Dayton, TN has ruled that no dictionary showing the developmental history of words may be used in its schools, as this violates biblical doctrine that God caused all languages to spring into being at once.
"Because Science" is one step from "Because old book". Try "Because of my experiment testing my falsifiable assertion".
...to base jump off of this.
elevators space you!
Unless, of course, Microsoft designs it. Then what you need is is color, touch-sensitive screen with an animated puppy on it. When you get in, he bounds up towards you and barks, and a little balloon appears saying, "Where do you want to go today? Based on past trips, I'd guess you want to go up. Is this correct?"
Halfway up the ribbon to space, the elevator would get confused and start going down. You'd have to stop it, turn it off, and manually open and shut the door to reset the system. Then the elevator would remind you that you should always reset the elevator using the Start menu.
Nice to see the Kansas scientific community give their thoughts on the subject :)
...all the slashdotters scrambling for the chance to scrawl "first passenger!" on the elevator wall....
to join the 19741974827320328 mile high club! ;)
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you've never played simcity, have you?
7. Come, let us descend and confuse their language, so that one will not understand the language of his companion."
Man, thank goodness nothing like that will happen when we try to build the space elevator! That would sure screw things up.
I mean, if you consider the possible implications of hrejit nü hrønfar ngornbø hleptic i vrüdenik slahh! Hlah! Nrkramnü, egnem znepi znepi frafnuu fraarg. Ple, ple plehehahrmon!Nkramnu? Nkramnu. Vrreedonfarnu o slan wethnip nkri nar franfor. (n'ktuthnish omo san wanaroomh!)
I was really hoping we could keep the Mac/Windows flame wars out of this discussion for once...
Current regulations (faa i think) prevent mile high cities.
Eh? What about this place?
http://www.denver.org/
Great, lay a source of conduction across the natural insulation of our atmosphere and discharge the entire ionisphere into the earth. Wheeeee
at least it'd be above sea level!
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Current regulations (faa i think) prevent mile high cities.
The FAA outlawed Denver?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Our apologies; the people responsible for the last post have been fired. Entirely new posts discussing the future ramifications of space elevators will replace them shortly. Meanwhile, here are some delicious pictures of a traditiønal møøse picnic from the wild snøw covered peaks of Nørway.
See, this is why I bought a 40-gig mp3 player...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.