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Why couldn't we just do a really long rear end road that just goes straight instead of bending to the curvature of the earth? That way you could just go forward instead of up. 
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mmmm posted:If NASA wants to keep their funding they'd drat well better stay ADA compliant -- if we can't have a Space Elevator for the upcoming crop of disabled astronauts then we'll just need to figure out some alternative way to facilitate their space access. Maybe some sort of county-funded Space Van? Whatever it is it'll have to be the sort of solution that can *just* barely function at 75% funding -- the days of pie-in-the-sky space endeavors are over & we need small gov't solutions for our austere times. I got you buddy, we'll just set off nukes underneath a big slab of metal until it and everyone on it is in space. As an added bonus, we have a lot of nukes already just corroding in their silos.
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Jul 2, 2016 02:56
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denied.
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Jul 2, 2016 03:17
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Could we get a Hellevator instead ?
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Its not possible to build a material strong enough to handle the stresses. We will eventually discover the particles responsible for creating mass fields, and thus learn how to control gravity. Get back to me then. To clarify, anti gravity may not be possible, but there should be a way to reduce an objects mass field so that it weighs less. WorldsStongestNerd fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Jul 2, 2016 |
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psychokitty posted:Could we get a Hellevator instead ?  hell yeah 
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hth posted:
testing word filter
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AugmentedVision posted:testing word filter Yeah he might have the greatest username
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why do nerds have such a micro-erection for space when there is so much unexplored inside the hollow earth
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just take the space stairs you idiots
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A CISHET SHITLORD posted:why do nerds have such a micro-erection for space when there is so much unexplored inside the hollow earth i've eaten enough dirt to know there's nothing underneath the ground conversely i've played the choking game enough to know the vacuum of space might cause me to shoot fuckin ropes before i die having my insides collapse on themselves like the asian guy from the hit 2013 moving picture 'gravity'
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hth posted:i've eaten enough dirt to know there's nothing underneath the ground well gently caress, I can't argue with this logic
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hth posted:i've eaten enough dirt to know there's nothing underneath the ground Also like david carradine.
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Can't you just like, focus a 3 beam laser on a kernel mass and run the jitter waveform through some polarized iron 180 degrees out of phase or some poo poo?
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I mistakenly thought there was another "ever" in the title and sung it like that Taylor Swift song.
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BossRighteous posted:Does anyway have a link to the article exploring all of the horrible destruction such a massive object whipping back to earth after an inevitable malfunction/terrorist attack would cause? It was actually pretty rad. in the mars trilogy by kim stanley robinson (not a scientific article by any means but better than nothing) the elevator wraps around the planet a couple times before its finally done falling. besides immediate and indiscriminate annihilation of everything within viewing distance, its like a few hundred miles in each direction of the cable that gets destroyed its a terrorist honeypot basically
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Jul 2, 2016 06:30
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we're never leaving this dead gay earth 
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BigwigML posted:we're never leaving this dead gay earth What's this we talk? Have a mouse in your pocket? I've got big plans on leaving this dead gay earth.
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imagine living in 2316 and we're all still stuck on this dumb gay planet count your blessings
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Node posted:in the mars trilogy by kim stanley robinson these books are dope
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all of ksr stuff is pretty good intrasolar scifi is a good jam
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a real jerk posted:imagine living in 2316 and we're all still stuck on this dumb gay planet Fuckin polygon pants and clear acrylic cube hats. Get me off this plaaaaaannneeeeeeettttttt! 
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I'm glad the robot got the noodle of its tit. 
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that's just a wireframe depiction of nipple hair removal
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BossRighteous posted:Does anyway have a link to the article exploring all of the horrible destruction such a massive object whipping back to earth after an inevitable malfunction/terrorist attack would cause? It was actually pretty rad. I read a book where this happened and it ruined 3/4 of the poo poo along the equator, it was a cool idea
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DONT CARE BUTTON posted:Sorry to break it to you nerds, but it's just not gonna happen. ok
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hold on op im pushing my dont care button re: you're poo poo thread
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Haha good it's cool that all the dreams and hopes and aspirations of mine will die and rot on this ball of dirt just like everyone that came before me and everyone afterwards.
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Shaquin posted:these books are dope wow I honestly thought I was going to get called an idiot that likes lovely books thanks for brightening my day, goon shaquin
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If it breaks at the base it escapes into space. If it breaks at the counterweight then it falls down to earth. Terrorists would need to get to space to do actual damage.
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It's not that I worry that space would turn my terrestrial physique into a disastrous lump of degraded muscle tone and weird circulation issues, it's that the cosmic radiation that passes through spaceships would probably irradiate me before the micro meteors smashed through the fusilage and dragged me into the void.
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there was a paper put out recently that showed that a single atom being out of place could compromise the entire structure of a nanotube and it's unlikely that enough tubes in the cable will be defect-free for their entire length to have the predicted strength needed to make a space elevator possible
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I worry more about space alligators people say they can't be made but I know (my cousin works at nasa) that some top scientists and engineers and herpetologists are working on it as we speak. I just hope they finish in my lifetime.
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Fortunately we still have rockets.
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WorldsStrongestNerd posted:Its not possible to build a material strong enough to handle the stresses. This is what they did in Mass Effect but they still needed the...uh...the things that looked like giant space guns to fire them even faster. Will we need those?
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BattleMaster posted:there was a paper put out recently that showed that a single atom being out of place could compromise the entire structure of a nanotube and it's unlikely that enough tubes in the cable will be defect-free for their entire length to have the predicted strength needed to make a space elevator possible yep, pretty unlikely *types post on machine that depends on giant defect free crystals*
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Germstore posted:yep, pretty unlikely *types post on machine that depends on giant defect free crystals* lol at this
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Peebla posted:I worry more about space alligators people say they can't be made but I know (my cousin works at nasa) that some top scientists and engineers and herpetologists are working on it as we speak. I just hope they finish in my lifetime. Nah man space octopodes are where its at: 8 legs with suckers so they don't need magnet boots to cling to a hull, their ejected ink works as reaction mass to motivate in a zero-g vacuum, their spatial reasoning skills are practically unparalleled, and they have a nice sharp beak for biting into space suits
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