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Obayashi To Build Space Elevator By 2050
mattr writes "Japan's Obayashi Corp. has announced plans to build a space elevator by 2050. They are famous for wrecking skylines with the over-sized bullet train station in Kyoto, the world's tallest self-supporting tower Tokyo Sky Tree and just recently, the beginnings of the Taipei Dome. It will take a week at 200 kph for your party of 30 to reach the 36,000-km-high terminal station, while the counterweight [swings along at] 96 km high, a quarter of the way to the Moon."
Wow. A week in an elevator. Here's hoping you're not in the elevator with "that guy". You know the one. Who eats about a ton of burrito's or whatever causes his usual gastric disturbances.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
Ah yes, the Shitsumi dam. That's near the Notami fault, isn't it?
if you think "that guy" who ate the burrito is bad..
just wait until you find out that there is only 1 song played over ... and over..
You left out the most relevant one:
1. Announce plan for space elevator
2. ???
3. Profit
But I hope they do work out step 2.
-- Braden's law of data: All data spends some of its lifetime in an excel spreadsheet.
Nope, this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1EG-MKy4so
It'll be a small matter of downloading the plans from an interweb and running the 3D printer overnight. A long weekend at most.
As for the financial aspects, bitcoin will solve all that.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Imagine the fire escape. How long will it take to walk up/down in a space suit?
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
You mean, gotta love the altitude! Haha! Right? Who's with me?
if you don't hold your breath.
Anyone know the stock ticker? With management like that it seems like an excellent short target.
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Vandalism, terrorist or not, and theft are probably the biggest issues.
"The police are looking for the stolen space elevator. All citizens noticing their neighbor trying to hide a suspiciously large elevator in his backyard are requested to report this to their local police station."
Ezekiel 23:20
Oh come on, you're making at least some of those names up. I've been as far south as Tuskegee and I've never heard of any of those places.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Not if you write it down. I have kept a record of these predictions. None of them came true. E.g. in 2005 it was predicted that by 2006 we should have invented material for space elevator cables... still waiting for that.
None of the predictions I have monitored have come true. Some have changed the schedule, some have completely disappeared. But no worries, soon we have contacted ET, have eternal lives and we drive with flying cars. It is unfortunate that the Internet crashed a few years ago, but at least we don't need to worry about spam.