[diamondgeezer]

Maybe it's reciprocal history, just as Apollo Applications killed off the last few moon shots, maybe the ISS has killed our chance at a Mars shot...

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I can't be bothered reading all this, but I remember an article in New Scientist a year or two ago, which suggested that any cable for a space elevator, even if only a millimetre thick on Earth, would have to be a kilometre thick by the time it reached the moon.

I think.

[diamondgeezer]

Well, maybe, but this one isn't going to be anchored to the moon. It's own momentum would keep it taut. I think.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

You mean the moon will be able to escape?

[Knight Templar]

I condone this project.

[diamondgeezer]

The moon is escaping, it gets two and bit inches further away each year

[Knight Templar]

Be a while before it leaves though. And not before we get tractor beams.

[diamondgeezer]

Then we can have as many moons as we want! We can have moonbases like Cybertron - bwahahahahaha!

[WMCoolmon]

20 years from now, I wonder if we'll feel the same about space as older people feel about undeveloped land - "I remember when you could look out at the stars, and not see any space stations or farms floating by. Just clear, twinkling stars..."

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
The moon is escaping, it gets two and bit inches further away each year

The bastard! It must be destroyed.

[Knight Templar]

No fool! Didn't you see Time Machine!?!?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I saw that version with all the strange blue underground people, whose colour came off when rubbed, like plums.

[diamondgeezer]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3874419.stm

[jdjtcagle]

I have a book about this, and personaly asked NASA about it.  And it's way too expensive, to even try to imagine when...

[Dark_4ce]

I feel great pitty for the poor souls that have to listen to the elevator music version of "Girl from Ipanema" on that thing. Therefore I propose an alternate, if not more insane idea... THE SPACE ESCALATOR!!!

[phreak]

how about the Stairway to Heaven?

its probably going to be called that once its built

and if it snaps, then it'll be called the Highway to Hell

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
I condone this project.

Me too. Tell them to contact Setekh or me for hosting on HLP.



....what?!??

[Knight Templar]

You know, since there's a lot of third-worldish countries along the equator, this project would probably bring a buttload of money to whoever hosts the project. I'm not saying for sure a good deal of money would actually go to any of the people, or even the national governments rather than corporation sand such, but it couldn't hurt...

[diamondgeezer]

Wel yeah, Guyana's getting mineted off of launching the ESA's Arianne boosters