Yes, kinda like spinning through space with your fly undone.emmline wrote:The idea of any kind of permanently installed cable strikes me as very strange somehow.
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Space elevator robot passes 1,000-foot mark
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Actually, if you read the linked articles, they are proposing the Earth end to be tethered to a floating platform in the equatorial oceans somewhere. That would circumvent the USA needing to conquer some tropical backwater just to have an equatorial landbase.
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I'd rather be atop the foothills than beneath them.
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...unless this dood gets to you first....amar wrote:amar, a sanscrit name/word, meaning immortal. so, i'll be around quite a while..
There can be only one, amar...
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That does look like they're out in the Palouse somewhere.Rod Sprague wrote:THAT'S JUST COOL! Watch out Crystal People, here we come! I live in the eastern Washington, north Idaho area, so with a bit of detective work, I could probably figure out where they are just from the ecology and geography in the picture. If I do, I won’t tell anybody. That might even be Moscow Mountain in the background, the highest point visible from my hometown, Moscow Idaho.
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Neat.
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Connor killed Kurgan...amar wrote:i'll let this dude deal with that sissy:
Duncan killed Connor...
you're still in deep sh*t, bro!
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There are quite a few fairly recent sci-fi stories about space elevators. One of the more recent ones was about a competition, and it was cool becuase it gave a couple of not so obvious reasons why an ocean based connection would be safer, more convenient and cheaper than a land based one.
Of course it ended with the elevator being too short, so they made a platform from a few blimps....
Of course it ended with the elevator being too short, so they made a platform from a few blimps....