How much to launch to Geo Stationary Orbit
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The Space Elevator
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Surely, right, Gravitational Potential Energy is our friend? mgh means that for every kilo, every metre, the energy converted in getting the vessel up to the top level is mostly reclaimed in the descent? Let's say that it's inefficient and only does 80% generation. Hey, that's reduced it to £20 a kilo! Wahey! Even for the heaviest guy, that's only £2000 to space! I'll be buying a ticket! The possibilities are almost endless!
Oh, and for those morons (I presume you are, if you're not, check your passport, are you SURE it isn't American?) who are obsessed with terrorism, this isn't going to be a big target. The tower is not going to be massively wide, and is certainly not going to be able to be hit by terrorists, let me tell why. We build the tower on Hawaii. That gives you a few thousand miles of nothing to monitor for terrorist attacks. Not only that, but it's 100000 km's high! The highest an average aeroplane goes is 30km's! Come on! Plus the great thing about nanotubes is that if you do hit them, all you're going to do is send a shockwave - they're incredibly strong to lateral attacks, and the only way you're going to kill someone is if the wire has a vehicle on it already.
Finally, if the USA doesn't do this, you can bet your bottom dollar that someone will. The Russians, maybe not. The Chinese, maybe. Hell, even us Europeans. One thing IS certain, it's not going to be manned. Not for quite a few years, until it's been tested to death, and some entrepreneur builds a hotel.
Just my two pence.
Yeah, I realise this is just wasting space, but hey, this DVD is cool, whatever anyone says. Hopefully it'll be on ASM TV this year (www.assemblytv.net) at ASM 03 (www.assembly.org) plug plug plug.
Can someone alter windows profile storage so that the average user can not just plug in one of these smart 64Mb USB media thingies and log on with all their mail messages etc? Or even better, one that will store it on any removable media drive so that PDA's etc can use it? And if not, WHY NOT? Oh, and if you worry about losing it, you always have a backup on your master computer, and should you try to hack the password, it'd have 1024-squillion bit encryption. And a guard dog. And four dead chickens... Ideas on a stamp addressed envelope.
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Surely, right, Gravitational Potential Energy is our friend? mgh means that for every kilo, every metre, the energy converted in getting the vessel up to the top level is mostly reclaimed in the descent? Let's say that it's inefficient and only does 80% generation. Hey, that's reduced it to £20 a kilo! Wahey! Even for the heaviest guy, that's only £2000 to space! I'll be buying a ticket! The possibilities are almost endless! Oh, and for those morons (I presume you are, if you're not, check your passport, are you SURE it isn't American?) who are obsessed with terrorism, this isn't going to be a big target. The tower is not going to be massively wide, and is certainly not going to be able to be hit by terrorists, let me tell why. We build the tower on Hawaii. That gives you a few thousand miles of nothing to monitor for terrorist attacks. Not only that, but it's 100000 km's high! The highest an average aeroplane goes is 30km's! Come on! Plus the great thing about nanotubes is that if you do hit them, all you're going to do is send a shockwave - they're incredibly strong to lateral attacks, and the only way you're going to kill someone is if the wire has a vehicle on it already. Finally, if the USA doesn't do this, you can bet your bottom dollar that someone will. The Russians, maybe not. The Chinese, maybe. Hell, even us Europeans. One thing IS certain, it's not going to be manned. Not for quite a few years, until it's been tested to death, and some entrepreneur builds a hotel. Just my two pence.
Yeah, I realise this is just wasting space, but hey, this DVD is cool, whatever anyone says. Hopefully it'll be on ASM TV this year (www.assemblytv.net) at ASM 03 (www.assembly.org) plug plug plug.
Can someone alter windows profile storage so that the average user can not just plug in one of these smart 64Mb USB media thingies and log on with all their mail messages etc? Or even better, one that will store it on any removable media drive so that PDA's etc can use it? And if not, WHY NOT? Oh, and if you worry about losing it, you always have a backup on your master computer, and should you try to hack the password, it'd have 1024-squillion bit encryption. And a guard dog. And four dead chickens... Ideas on a stamp addressed envelope.