Space Elevators, was Re: [extropy-chat] good space shuttle article

[Bret Kulakovich]

(Bird-to-Stone ratio: 2)


There is a giant gap in Geo between roughly 150W and 170W.

I believe Hawaii is in it, among other things...


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On Aug 3, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Jay Dugger wrote:

>
> Stick a pin on the equator of a Mercator projection of Earth. Call the
> whole shaft of the pin "restricted space." Look at what you have left
> over. Yes, the pin goes outward a very long way, about 10E5 km. If
> your scale gets big enough, this starts to look one-dimensional.
> Enough hand-waving on that. I don't know orbital dynamics well enough
> to argue this. (Where's Szabo?)
>
> Ocean basing allows its own advantages. For instance, transfer cargo
> directly from container ships to SE and vice versa. If the economics
> work out you might even see super-container ships far too large for
> any canal that transfer to go up a Pacific SE, orbital transfer to an
> Atlantic SE, down that SE, and transfer back to a container ship.
> Totally speculative, I admit. No worse than teleportation, however. :)
>
>> Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> ISS. No Hubble, No Bigelows Budget Suites, and IMHO it puts access to

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