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Monday, Sep 22
Japanese Scientists Plan to Build Space Elevator
Seeing as how our atmosphere has been on earth for a couple billion years now, and hasn't thus far leaped out into space, it'd basically be like a nerf gun trying to fire with half a pump (14.7 psi). lpranal.
Japanese Scientists Plan to Build Space Elevator
twg77: Interestingly the carbon nanotube solution may mean that in the event of a cable snap the wire would fragment. The higher sections would burn up in the atmosphere, and the low density of the cable would probably mean it ends up ...
Japanese Scientists Plan to Build Space Elevator
Can you imagine the destructive force unleashed when that cable snaps. It will be worse than any natural disaster we've ever seen. Right up there next to an asteroid strike. This is something that has to be done right or not at all. ...
japanese scientists plan to build space elevator [space elevators]
carbon nanotube technology has advanced so rapidly that a material capable of withstanding the amazing forces in the space elevator cable is almost within reach: according to the chairman of the japan space elevator association it'd ...
