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Space Forum / Shuttle / October 2004Part of a space elevator.. baby step!
Take a big montain, and add to it. The project would be bigger than the Panama canal project. So we have a 60 mile high mountain and add a set of steel rails for a launcher thats powered electrically perhaps super conducting magnets. Now the infrastructre costs will be unreal, but the operating cost low, mostly electricity and maintenance. the high G launch wouldnt allow people but ideal for water and hardened cargo. . . End the dangerous wasteful shuttle now before it kills any more astronauts.... > Take a big montain, and add to it. The project would be bigger than the > Panama [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > End the dangerous wasteful shuttle now before it kills any more > astronauts.... Erm, well, somewhat like a gun really, hardly an elevator. I personally cannot see how the classic elevator can ever work due to the difficulty in keeping your centre of gravity in the geosynchorous orbit. Brian  SignatureBrian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: briang1@blueyonder.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >I personally cannot see how the classic elevator can ever work due to the >difficulty in keeping your centre of gravity in the geosynchorous orbit. I personally wonder how long people will continue to believe that CM must be at GEO. http://www.mit.edu/people/gassend/spaceelevator/center-of-mass/index.html -Monte <flash -- rockets don't need air to push against> > Take a big montain, and add to it. The project would be bigger than the Panama > canal project. > > So we have a 60 mile high mountain and add a set of steel rails for a launcher > thats powered electrically perhaps super conducting magnets. Not exactly how many 60 mile high mountains there are. Heck, how many 30 mile mountains there are. Heck, look at how much parts of the North American plate sunk due to simply 1 mile of ice on top of it. Hint, rock may look solid to you and me, but it's fairly plastic when you put 59 miles on top of your first mile of rock. > Now the infrastructre costs will be unreal, but the operating cost low, mostly > electricity and maintenance. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > . > End the dangerous wasteful shuttle now before it kills any more astronauts.... |
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