Who says it's illegal? Reprehensible, yes, but illegal? Unfortunately they "own" the content of MSN.COM, so it falls into a very different category than leaving a current JVM out of WinXP. In that situation every current Java class is affected. In this situation only their own site is affected.
A space elevator can't be built from the ground up, it hangs from a geo-stationary orbiting mass. As the elevator hangs down a correspondingly large mass must be added ABOVE the orbiting platform. When it is done you have something that is an elevator from gound to its midpoint and a large empty scaffold reflecting the bottom mass.
Richard Feynman (who so deftly demostrated the brittle nature of frozen o-rings after Challenger and the father of nano-technology) isn't here to tell us what went wrong this time. As a doff-of-the-hat I say advance our nano technology, shoot the little buggers to the moon and build our space elevator use lunar raw materials. A goal like that would focus NASA, spur research, and evolve us to a spacefaring species.
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Who says it's illegal? Reprehensible, yes, but illegal? Unfortunately they "own" the content of MSN.COM, so it falls into a very different category than leaving a current JVM out of WinXP. In that situation every current Java class is affected. In this situation only their own site is affected.
I miss the old "There Oughtta Be a Law" cartoon.
Yes we have... We've gone to a world where Fox News can bounce useless jabber off satellites.
A space elevator can't be built from the ground up, it hangs from a geo-stationary orbiting mass. As the elevator hangs down a correspondingly large mass must be added ABOVE the orbiting platform. When it is done you have something that is an elevator from gound to its midpoint and a large empty scaffold reflecting the bottom mass.
Richard Feynman (who so deftly demostrated the brittle nature of frozen o-rings after Challenger and the father of nano-technology) isn't here to tell us what went wrong this time. As a doff-of-the-hat I say advance our nano technology, shoot the little buggers to the moon and build our space elevator use lunar raw materials. A goal like that would focus NASA, spur research, and evolve us to a spacefaring species.