A space Elevator

[Benny1]

This isn't fiction.
This is real.
This is going to be the coolest thing ever XD.

I was talking to Reach about it last night, so I decided to find an article about it for current events on friday, here is the article, so you can all read it.

I cannot wait until something like this would and could happen.

http://www.space.com/businesstechnol..._020327-1.html

Discuss.

Oh yeah, I guess news is media, so I put this in here, move if you want.

[Squeek]

Media = TV Shows, Movies, Anime, etc.

News unrelated to the above topics does not count, so CC'd.

~Squeek

[ad0gg]

That's pretty sweet. But I if I had a choice, I think I would probably go by rocket, just for the excitement and sensation.

[gonzo4life44]

The whole elevator thing just seems like it would take too long going at that speed. And the whole "rocket" Would just be ten times better. But if they decied to open it in NM, i would live like 10 minutes away from it.

[Bodom13]

heh i live in new mexico. maybe the first one will be close. id rather take a rocket because there way cooler then elevators..

[Tokzic]

Height of Highest Freestanding Structure (on land): CN Tower (1,815 ft.)
Height of Highest Supported Structure: KVLY-TV Mast (2,063 ft.)
Height of Space Shuttle's Flight: 300 km (984 251 ft.)

o ya so close!

EDIT: Oh, just read the article. And all the times I've read about space elevators, they were buildings.

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

That sounds really cool. To think, if they do this right, we could be in space in the next decade or two. That just seems incredible to me.

[talisman]

course this was from 3 years ago... I wish I were at college so I could tap into the library databases and research this a little more. I doubt with the current moon/mars initiative eating up a ton of nasa's budget right now it'll get very far. Plus I'd question it's ability to handle weather, wind, incidental meteor collisions... if the cable is that tense you'd think it might be easy to snap.

[Tokzic]

Originally Posted by talisman

it might be easy to snap.

I'd pay extra for the fall if I got to live through it.

[kickassbuddy]

I won't go on the elevator.

I can't stand hours of elevator music. lol

[Tasuke]

Wouldn't that do something to how the Earth is? By having
a massive "elevator" sticking out of some random point?

[evilbutterfly]

Originally Posted by talisman

if the cable is that tense you'd think it might be easy to snap.

Height of Space Shuttle's Flight: 300 km (984 251 ft.)

Imagine a 300km cable falling over...

...onto your house. I smell a lot of lawsuits for this space elevator as soon as it fails for the first time. Cuz even if they build it in the middle of nowhere, the middle of nowhere is less than 300km from somebody's very smashable house.

And for the record, I wouldn't go to space. Nothing to do, it'd be boring. Plus, I don't like the whole "lol we never learned to use our resources on Earth let's just go into space!" thing, cuz it's running from the REAL problems. If the money that went to NASA went into, oh I dunno, RECYCLING AND CONSERVING RESOURCES, we'd have no need to go into space. Stupid people and their space dreams. -__-

[Varia]

Originally Posted by evilbutterfly

people and their space dreams.

Dreams man...dreams...

[emccky]

it's human nature to explore, eb. If there was no exploration then we'd all be living crammed up in Europe thinking the world was flat right now :/

[Bodom13]

Originally Posted by kickassbuddy

I won't go on the elevator.

I can't stand hours of elevator music. lol

i think elevator music is the best part

[Tasuke]

Originally Posted by evilbutterfly

If the money that went to NASA went into, oh I dunno, RECYCLING AND CONSERVING RESOURCES, we'd have no need to go into space. Stupid people and their space dreams. -__-

But it's SPACE! Y'know, SPACE! like zero-gravity
and floating and lightsabers!