It would be big target for a terrorist attack, but it would be rather hard to cause any major damage. First it would be located out in the middle of the ocean, and (hopefully) surrounded by warships so it would be very hard to do an september 11 style attack on it.
Secondly the tensile strength of carbon nanotubes is estimated to be 200,000,000,000 pascals (29,006,526 psi). Short of a nuke, I don't know where you would find a weapon that could break something that strong. If you did somehow manage to break it, only the portion of the space elevator below where you cut it would fall. To cause any real damage you would have to break it fairly close to the middle, and the only efective way to get there would be to ride the space elevator, and I think the would notice you sending a nuke up it.
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This isn't about the search listing, it's about the ads. You can pay to have your ad show up higher on the google results page.
It does look like Google is violating this patent, if you accept that you can patent an idea like this.
It would be big target for a terrorist attack, but it would be rather hard to cause any major damage. First it would be located out in the middle of the ocean, and (hopefully) surrounded by warships so it would be very hard to do an september 11 style attack on it.
Secondly the tensile strength of carbon nanotubes is estimated to be 200,000,000,000 pascals (29,006,526 psi). Short of a nuke, I don't know where you would find a weapon that could break something that strong. If you did somehow manage to break it, only the portion of the space elevator below where you cut it would fall. To cause any real damage you would have to break it fairly close to the middle, and the only efective way to get there would be to ride the space elevator, and I think the would notice you sending a nuke up it.
Not my dollars, I stole my music of Aimster.
it was 375kb/s. I finished the d/l already.
thanks for the link. I'm getting 35kb/sec.
Wow, I wish I had protection like that here in the USA.