Comments on: The Space Elevator is Feasible https://blog.speculist.com/space/the-space-eleva.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: MikeD https://blog.speculist.com/space/the-space-eleva.html#comment-9919 MikeD Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:31:33 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=2021#comment-9919 Have you seen how much money is allocated in the Stimulus bill for NASA to build space-taxi to International Space Station? I say put that money into the elevator project and use ISS as counterweight. Let’s get on with it!

Not only would we have a space elevator as a primary goal, but the secondary results of new technologies would likely be worth as much as the elevator itself. I’d like to be able to go to Home Depot/Lowes and purchase 100′ of nanotube – might sound laughable now, but once we have contractors tooling up to make miles of it, a few extra feet should be easy. Well, maybe it won’t be available at the hardware store – I just remembered what happened in Niven’s Ringworld when that stuff starts cutting through normal materials :)

]]> By: Steve Gall https://blog.speculist.com/space/the-space-eleva.html#comment-9918 Steve Gall Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:48:38 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=2021#comment-9918 The biggest unsolved problem, as I understand it, is the flexing and waving of the cable itself once in place, creating an unstable platform for the climber. How is this issue being addressed?

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]]> By: Phil Bowermaster https://blog.speculist.com/space/the-space-eleva.html#comment-9917 Phil Bowermaster Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:17:54 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=2021#comment-9917 NASA needs to scrap its current rocket debates and get full-bore behind this idea. We need big earth-launched rockets to construct space elevators – they need to get going with the new Saturn V. Long term moon settlement and planetary exploration should all be predicated on getting the space elevator going.

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