Nuclear power has come a long way since the first commercial reactors, and especially Chernobyl. Unfortunately I don't think the general public has been told.
Either way, Liftport has been talking about holding a competition at a Robotics convention (or summert, I forget) for making ribbon-climbing robots. In the rules of said competition, the entries get extra points for a remote, wireless power source for the climber. This struck me as slightly odd, and likely unfeasable on the grand scale, but an interesting developmental path...
A tapering ribbon makes it more difficult yes, but not impossible. I'm sure there'll be plenty of potential engineering solutions proposed given incentive.
You're right that lowering the ribbon would 'defloat' the CoMass, but extending the ribbon in both directions simultaneously wouldn't unbalance the situation.
What's with the need for an asteroid? There's plenty of matter just lying around the place down here - I'm sure there's a lot of matter which people would pay to have moved beyond geo! Though dangerous (radioactive, etc.) substances would probably have to wait for the first elevator to become operational before being moved to geo...
Incidentally, AFAIK there isn't planned to be any kind of significant station at geo during the construction process - it's unfeasibly expensive to build one without the elevator operational - just look at the ISS!:)
I don't expect to get one, but I (and one of my workmates) put in an order nonetheless.
Not mentioned anywhere else I've found was that the HP iPAQ H5450 was priced at about GB£23 also! Needless to say that I ordered me one of those, too.:-)
Remains to be seen whether Amazon will honour the price, but I doubt it.
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No, yelloooooooooooo......!
Surely you mean:
[2] If they sue you, buy a friendly government.
No, but they could have transparent dresses!
I didn't realise they'd got it to work with water, too!?
Nuclear power has come a long way since the first commercial reactors, and especially Chernobyl. Unfortunately I don't think the general public has been told.
Either way, Liftport has been talking about holding a competition at a Robotics convention (or summert, I forget) for making ribbon-climbing robots. In the rules of said competition, the entries get extra points for a remote, wireless power source for the climber.
This struck me as slightly odd, and likely unfeasable on the grand scale, but an interesting developmental path...
A tapering ribbon makes it more difficult yes, but not impossible. I'm sure there'll be plenty of potential engineering solutions proposed given incentive.
:)
You're right that lowering the ribbon would 'defloat' the CoMass, but extending the ribbon in both directions simultaneously wouldn't unbalance the situation.
What's with the need for an asteroid? There's plenty of matter just lying around the place down here - I'm sure there's a lot of matter which people would pay to have moved beyond geo! Though dangerous (radioactive, etc.) substances would probably have to wait for the first elevator to become operational before being moved to geo...
Incidentally, AFAIK there isn't planned to be any kind of significant station at geo during the construction process - it's unfeasibly expensive to build one without the elevator operational - just look at the ISS!
This isn't a flame
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Ah, but that was under US law. This is under UK law.
Though I still doubt it'll be honoured.
I don't expect to get one, but I (and one of my workmates) put in an order nonetheless.
:-)
Not mentioned anywhere else I've found was that the HP iPAQ H5450 was priced at about GB£23 also!
Needless to say that I ordered me one of those, too.
Remains to be seen whether Amazon will honour the price, but I doubt it.
Actually, the additional comment about 5,800 years absolute time seems to appear and disappear randomly when you refresh the page...
Or it seems to for me, anyway.