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Inflatable Tower Could Climb To the Edge of Space
MonkeyClicker writes with mention of a proposal that could see an inflatable tower helping to carry people to the edge of space without the need for rocket propulsion. This would function in place of previous space elevator designs which featured a large cable and could be completed much faster, if proponents of the project are to be believed. "To stay upright and withstand winds, full-scale structures would require gyroscopes and active stabilization systems in each module. The team modeled a 15-kilometer tower made up of 100 modules, each one 150 meters tall and 230 meters in diameter, built from inflatable tubes 2 meters across. Quine estimates it would weigh about 800,000 tonnes when pressurized — around twice the weight of the world's largest supertanker."
fuck AQ, fuck all the bullshit pumped through our fucked up media to sell weapons and fear enslaving ppl. wake up.
Remember, the guys from Al-Qaeda are very creative. They will find a way.
Pretty sure they won't. They knocked down two towers while the US wasn't looking and then went on to go whack a pile of poor, deeply impoverished bastards living in the ass end of the earth without any law or order. That is like whacking a big guy with a two by four while his back is turned and the running away to go beat up on elementary school children (and eventually getting your ass kicked by them). People give Al-Qaeda way too much credit. A bunch of bored and suicidal French chemistry college grads represent more danger. Hell, biking in Boston is more scary than Al-Qaeda. If you live in the US, you are a hell of a lot more likely to die by choking on a chicken bone than by being killed by Al-Qaeda.
(Maybe if we built a huge wooden badger.)
FTFY. ;)
Here is the best technical drawing I could find: link