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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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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.
Hey, thanks for putting that in perspective.
...following the principles of Heisenburger's Uncertain Cat...
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.
"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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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
... we could use them to power the Space Elevator!
"Space Exploration is not endless circles in low earth orbit." -Buzz Aldrin