[Liberator]

As I recall the actual tether was quite strong, the superstructure surrounding it that housed linear electric motor bullet trains for transporting people and material to and from the geosync anchors.  It fell apart because an idiot thought it would be a good idea to fire on it with a surface bombardment cannon with the destructive potential of a large nuke.  And despite this, the tether held, it was the superstructure that was ejected to maintain the stability of the structure so wall sections the size of city blocks started raining down on the surrounding population center that had grown up as a result of the construction project.

[SpardaSon21]

00?

[Bobboau]

assuming gundam 00

[Liberator]

Yeah "00", beyond the final battle(s), the fight to save the non-coms from the falling debris was crowning moment of awesome for the second season.

[Bobboau]

tvtropes, yeah, cause that's what I need at this hour. :/

[Mongoose]

I really need to instruct you people in the fine art of hiding your spoilers.

[Stormkeeper]

And yet seem to be very prone to terrorist actions.

All military bases are.

[Nuke]

when you find me an engineer who shows me plans to a space elevator and find me a contractor who wants to build it, il buy the whole space elevator thing. until them microwave will have to do. yes theres energy loss, yes you could use it as a weapon, but really its the only game in town. we still need many thousand square kilometers of photovoltaics and probably gona have to man the installation (or use robots/telepresence systems) to do frequent repairs caused by micrometeorite damage. then theres the matter of getting the materials up there.  and yes it will cast a shadow.

really nuclear is the only sane way to meet energy needs.

[Bobboau]

"then theres the matter of getting the materials up there."
well, we could always build an orbital ele..v..... eh, nevermind.

[Stormkeeper]

For now, I guess nuclear is still the way to go. Plants are generally very safe these days. Although hopefully an orbital elevator won't be too far away. Japan has a $5 billion dollor budget for building one, but I'm not really gonna say anything else about it as of yet. Still in its infancy, that plan is.

[Bobboau]

$5B? if it was 5 trillion dollars I'd say they had a shot, 5 billion is hardly going to get them anywhere.

[Stormkeeper]

Well, it's about 1 trillion yen.

[Nuke]

the space elevator would probably bankrupt the earth

then again you cant throw money at the problem and expect it to not fail catastrophically.

[Scotty]

I don't think you can technically bankrupt the whole world at once.  Money doesn't just disappear.

[headdie]

scottys right you would just bankrupt the contractors involved (i don't think a national government can legally be declared bankrupt)

secondly i believe NASA has a reward posted for the first team that develops a viable prototype

[Kosh]

i don't think a national government can legally be declared bankrupt

No but they can default which is the next best thing.