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Space Elevator vs Wildlife
An anonymous reader writes "The longest test yet of the technology that might one day lead to space elevators has revealed some unusual problems. From the article: "There were several unexpected encounters with wildlife. More than a dozen insect egg colonies had been laid on the tether and curious bats flew around the balloons, apparently attracted by the sound made by the tether's vibrations. Late in the test, swallows were also seen swooping down on the balloons, possibly to sip the morning dew on their surfaces." Maybe all the critters just want to go to space too."
No, you fools! It's mother nature trying to keep us from leaving this planet! She wants to take us down with her!
"Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing. Well I say, hard cheese." - C. M. Burns
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The space shuttle sucks, a space elevator swallows.
Late in the test, swallows were also seen swooping down on the balloons ...
african or european swallows?
Nature may abhor a vacuum, but it loves a space elevator!
Never ask for directions from a two-headed tourist! -Big Bird
No no, the space shuttle blows. ( -5 horribly insensitive)
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Yes, but the Wonkavator was powered by love. Love, dammit! As Americans, we are somewhat lacking in that particular natural resource, so the technology wouldn't work for us. However, if left as it is, the border security problems could one day allow enough Latinos into the US to solve this problem, raising our love-per-capita counts to the levels necessary to power such a device, hell, a whole fleet of such devices! Imagine, a Wonkavator in every garage, and a bunch of molten candy in every oven... the new American dream!
There is no mod option "-1: Disagree" for a reason. "Overrated" is not an acceptable substitute. Post something instead.
"SNAKES . . . IN SPACE", and can the porcine Muppets be far behind?
best of all, the space elevator takes enormous loads!
.evom ton seod gis eht
If the dolphins start trying to jump on these things we might need to start worrying.
The snozberries taste like snozberries.
How the devil does this get moderated informative? I mean, I suppose yes, technically, it's informative (in that I've never friended someone on slashdot). But surely it isn't deserving of a +2 Informative?
did they have any coconuts with them?
You can't handle the truth.
Hey, thanks for putting that in perspective.
...following the principles of Heisenburger's Uncertain Cat...
I would've guessed that wildlife would've been their last worry. I didn't read the article, but did they mention how a space elevator would WICK THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE INTO OUTER SPACE! First person to try and build one of these things is gonna get a swift kick straight to the nuts, so help me...
but repetition makes it funny (+1 funny)
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
NASA just called. They want to buy your shoelaces
Welcome our new Irradiated Insect Eating Mutant Swallow-Bat Hybrid Overlords
;-p
Luckily we will be able to shoot them off the elevator with the laser beam that powers to climber
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Really? Well, let me try:
but repetition makes it funny (+1 funny)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
No, there's plenty of idiots like you out there.
But what happens when someone puts into that tube enormous amounts of material?
"Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has apparently been taken over -- 'conquered' if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves."
---- Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"
Maybe the wildlife is trying to let us in on what the Dolphins already know?
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African or European?
This is not the greatest
... but the Apple Store sure as heck did!
He may have meant Moore's, but he gave an excellent example of Murphy's.
The pollution (and therefore environmental damage) caused by using a rocket to put one ton of payload into space is about a zillion times what would be caused by
Wait, wait -- is that U.S. or British zillions?
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
On behalf of Texas and most of the South, I will gladly send all our fireants to space.
"Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." Mark Twain
This is NO WAY that the space elevator will EVER get completed. (There. That guarantees that it will be completed!) Cragen
Next thing you know, Starship Troopers.
... we could use them to power the Space Elevator!
"Space Exploration is not endless circles in low earth orbit." -Buzz Aldrin
The rain forest is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when the sky puts the rain in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of monkeys and beetles, enormous amounts of monkeys and beetles.