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Filthy Hans posted: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 This post is truth. It is common knowledge that the only void-dwelling creatures are space kraken
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A CISHET SHITLORD posted:This post is truth. It is common knowledge that the only void-dwelling creatures are space kraken And phallic space whales.
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If the cable is a flat ribbon, and doesn't have extraneous poo poo hanging off it (like a space McDonald's), then it would flutter to the ground like paper if cut at altitude.
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Germstore posted:yep, pretty unlikely *types post on machine that depends on giant defect free crystals* Be right back just got to feed some more crystal into my computer-tube.
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Palicgofueniczekt posted:If the cable is a flat ribbon, and doesn't have extraneous poo poo hanging off it (like a space McDonald's), then it would flutter to the ground like paper if cut at altitude. yeah a two mile long meters-wide cable of carbon fiber falling from geosynchronous orbit is just gonna flutter to the ground like paper. carbon fiber is lightweight 
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 I'm charging my jack off crystals.
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dog buttz posted: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? dont confuse mass effect for sci fi because despite there being vague whispers of cool sci fi poo poo the game is not actually about cool space poo poo, it is about your love relationship with a two dimensional video game character and also your love relationship with two dimensional sexy blue space aliens who reproduce by having sex with other aliens 
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nigga crab pollock posted:dont confuse mass effect for sci fi because despite there being vague whispers of cool sci fi poo poo the game is not actually about cool space poo poo, it is about your love relationship with a two dimensional video game character and also your love relationship with two dimensional sexy blue space aliens who reproduce by having sex with other aliens Are you sure you don't mean 1-dimensional characters?
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they are two dimensional on your tv screen one dimensional character implies that they have enough characterization to beg the question 'why didnt this person change over the course of the story'
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I'm gonna get me some goddamn space elevator shoes
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the future is hooking our brains up to machines that convince us that we have space elevators
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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. what is a herpes collector doing working on space alligators?
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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. space babies at space disneyworld are gonna get hosed up
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We're going to die on this rock, get over it. When super powers stopped caring about space exploration it was over. Venture capitalist aren't going to fill the gap.
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Bagarthach posted:But, carbon nanotuuuuuuuuuuuubes! stupid science bitches are like "ugh buut we just need to invent space mithril and then boom space elevator now excuse me while i peruse i loving love science and watch doctor who"
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Jul 3, 2016 04:37
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In the 2830s they are still going to be launching chemical rockets and touching their dicks about it.
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Humanity will survive the death of the Sun imho There's no way we actually go extinct from nuclear war or global warming or peak oil whatever, at least a significant portion will survive and technology will continue to progress. So we have 1bn years to make a colony ship to go a few dozen light years to the next star with rocky planets. They probably won't be homo sapiens anymore, but some direct descendants of today's humans will leave the solar system. If we're not all transhuman AIs by then or whatever
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remember that show The Great Space Coaster? fake
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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. what if the elevator was made of helium balloons checkmate pessimist
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Germstore posted: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. yeah the terrorists would have to smuggle a bomb onto some sort of elevator to space in this hypothetical scenario involving a working space elevator
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AugmentedVision posted:Humanity will survive the death of the Sun imho But if there's not people on one of those planets there's probably nothing good to eat. A billion years sounds like plenty of time to get social.
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bonus advantage to the balloon elevator: instead of anti-bomb measures we just find the terrorists smuggling hedgehogs, pufferfish, and pinstripe suits
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when the guy had the idea for the original elevator, they doubted him too, OP they doubted him too look it up, his name was John Elevator
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I say we just put a big old pulley into empty space and the vaccum  will hold it up there while to force to lift the elevator uses the vacuum hose of space pulling everything out into the cosmos so it doesn't just pull the pulley down.
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I think humanity will continue to progress in a series of leaps and slow crawls. Nerds who like to jack off about progress are bad but so are nerds that like to jack off about pessimism and bleakness and the stagnation of humanity. "We're headed for a new Dark Age, humanity will stagnate again, you just watch!" There's no such thing as the Dark Ages, dummy, modern historians hate that term. Political instability after Rome fell was real, yeah, but progress never stopped. At this point the Dark Ages are basically a pop culture myth.
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There will definitely be a space elevator and it will absolutely be designed by the lowest bidder defense contractor staffed by idiots who barely made it through college, so good luck everyone living within its impact zone when it collapses
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:I think humanity will continue to progress in a series of leaps and slow crawls. shutup fag 
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Aralan posted:There will definitely be a space elevator and it will absolutely be designed by the lowest bidder defense contractor staffed by idiots who barely made it through college, so good luck everyone living within its impact zone when it collapses Everyone complains about how the northern hemisphere takes advantage of the southern. This will be the perfect chance for both hemispheres sharing equally in the suck. *Offer may not apply in actual northern hemisphere countries.
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Wanna see Betelgeuse explode And the ensuing Beetlejuice tie ins
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what about a space escalator
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idc as long as i can get cybernetic implants and poo poo
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bitcoin bastard posted:Everyone complains about how the northern hemisphere takes advantage of the southern. This will be the perfect chance for both hemispheres sharing equally in the suck. The northern hemisphere is the rockingest hemisphere on Earth, it's basically Men At Work vs. the entire catalog of music ever I Come from the Land Down Under muzak will play on loop in the space elevator, and it will suck
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Filthy Hans posted:The northern hemisphere is the rockingest hemisphere on Earth, it's basically Men At Work vs. the entire catalog of music ever as a current drunk i loving hate you for making me open youtube right now e: vegemite sandwich lol, as if any of her queens subjects would ever eat such a thing
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1 day after opening the terrorists would have blown the elevator up
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Zzulu posted:1 day after opening the terrorists would have blown the elevator up checks out, wed probably make brown people build it for us
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DONT CARE BUTTON posted:Sorry to break it to you nerds, but it's just not gonna happen. Maybe there wont be one but a sky hook system is inevitable.
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reallivedinosaur posted:when the guy had the idea for the original elevator, they doubted him too, OP Buildings were built with elevator shafts in them before elevators in buildings were invented, just because people were pretty sure it was going to happen soon. And they were right! Optimism isn't always a stupid thing.
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reallivedinosaur posted:when the guy had the idea for the original elevator, they doubted him too, OP Konstantin Tsiolkovsky thought up the space elevator and a bunch of other things. He really liked eugenics too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky
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