It is already possible to build a space elevator. The key idea is the Orbital Ring version of the space elevator, not the geosynchronous tether concept you are familiar with.
You get the idea. Any of these could be done for $100 billion or less, a negligible cost when considering a GDP of trillions of dollars.
Why do something like this? Overnight, asteroid mining becomes an incredibly profitable industry. Because the cost of delivering payloads to LEO drops from thousands of dollars per kilogram to less than $100 (potentially less than $1) we can now retrieve asteroids with trillions of dollars worth of minerals for mere tens millions of dollars in addition to having an easy viable way of returning those resources back to the surface. We acquire the ability to deploy profitable solar power in orbit above cloud cover and with the ability to return said power back to the surface with near zero loss by running power transmission cables down the elevator.
With increased luminosity in space, enhanced exposure time, and the ability to deliver base loads, solar panels pay for themselves in only 1-2 years while having a 20 year life time. In other words, if you put $5 trillion of solar panels into space, you get your $5 trillion back by the end of year two and a $5 trillion income stream each year thereafter. In other words, the US could cut everyone's taxes, both personal and business, income, capital, death, or otherwise, all to 0%, not even cut any benefits or current spending, and pay off the national debt within a decade.
If your politician isn't talking about this, he is stupid or controlled opposition.
Jacob Gray
Profitability is not important
Joshua Young
It isn't a political issue. It's an engineering issue.
United States Space Force and Trumps NASA will go to moon first. Trump is the man. And only jews and niggers hate him, the fucking kike jew fucks. I don't give a shit what you see on tv. Fuck jew tv, it's all fake.
Oliver Scott
I’m a civil engineer, and i’ve looked through the Paul Birch writings ; its pretty sound. It would definitely be helpful if somebody crafted some easily digestible calcs that could be shared on here so people’s skepticisms could be quelled. I may work on that if i can make some time
Angel Hughes
I’m not the SE ; just sharing the post because i think its important discussion. But happy to answer questions to the best of my ability - and i know many other anons on here can answer questions as well
Juan Wood
>United States Space Force and Trumps NASA will go to moon first Go back to plebbit, retard
Logan James
How do you mean? No need to argue about minimum wages and socialism if we actually grow economically, and regular people can afford a similar lifestyle as a millionaire with their basic salary due to the elimination of material scarcity
Ayden Cox
and of course you are a newfag
Benjamin Turner
Ever seen a hammer throw? Earth would be swung out of orbit! I'm tired of these Jewish plots.
Yes, hence I was happy what he created a space elevator thread. Space elevator threads are always of good quality. That's why mods don't allow it here anymore.
Aaron Baker
best place to put it is at the equator, therefore not in 1st world country, therefore political issue.
>It is already possible to build a space elevator That's where you're wrong Kiddo.
Jackson Mitchell
Let's make a ladder first
Mason Carter
Go be a mod for free somewhere else.
Juan Brown
If you absolutely want to maximize efficiency, yes. But in terms of the return-benefit, it is probably negligible, since you could just put it on a different and more geographically-friendly latitude but at a slightly higher (relatively speaking) elevation. Plus, there is always opportunity to build more if geo-political tensions stabilize, and people globally identify the benefits
Nathan Thomas
Anything in particular that you want to point out from one of the attached concept sources that you think is wrong? I’m sure we can hammer the issues out together.
Liam Cox
It's not even an engineering issue at this point. It's a matter purely of human will. If nations actually set themselves to the task it could be accomplished within decades.
Christian Murphy
Thats retarded. We should kick Jews out of science and accept the Electric universe Theory and start building according to those Laws discovered by Tesla.
People might call it „anti gravity“ but it is actually all about electromagnetism and electric currents. Those are the things that form the universe.
If we accepted this then we wouldn‘t need space elevators.
I believe tesla actually developed one of the concepts of the space elevator - i think it is a precursor step to more advanced tech as you describe, but i don’t know enough about it besides the SE
Dylan Baker
I believe the world is more monolithic than we think. Most nations are more conjoined-at-the-hip than we realize. So its moreso an ‘us vs them’ situation, rather than nation vs nation
Bentley Wood
>NYT admits Trump was spied on >Halper's "Russian" assistant outed as FBI >Ukraine admits DNC approached it to help frame Trump >Barr tells Dems to Get fucked >Barr states 14 criminal investigations ongoing
Sage all bullshit space threads. It's slide in the purest form to distract from the fact that DOTR is coming any day....
You wouldn‘t need some gay elevator because it wouldn‘t be a big problem to develop craft that can move into orbit faster and cheaper than any of those concepts.
It'll never happen. The small-minded hacks at NASA flat-out rejected my space escalator design
Austin Cook
You realize India just gain access to space right? They are literally blowing up shit, and creating a danger to anything in orbit. They ruin literally everything they touch.
Oliver Morales
“Spying” is such a nothingburger in a landscape where politicial and non-political assassinations of targets are the equivalent of j-walking for a commoner. Seriously, grow up man
Easton Cox
Materials science isn't there yet, and some durka would just blow it up.
Zachary Reed
>Implying NASA have never blown up a rocket
Jonathan Garcia
The orbital ring concept was provably engineered and designed using kevlar as a sufficiently strong enough material. The tether counter-weight design is a different animal altogether.
Also- we build lots of infrastructure that is vulnerable. We don’t let the threat of extremism stop us from doing those projects - why should it stop us from this? Not to mention that literally tomorrow we could be totally crippled if somebody actually targeted key infrastructure like power or transportation. Sitting ducks as it is
Grayson Martin
Pretend you're China, choose a spot, build island. Cruise and a trip to space would be a great vacation. Biggest problem right now would be to clean up all the space junk that could impact the elevator.
Samuel White
God I miss good ol’ Space Elevator threads. I wish he’d come back.
Explain? Look at food, for example. We found ways to make nourishment affordable and accessible to just about everyone. Now the result is drastically reduced starvation in the States. Apply the same logic to energy, from the SE solar infrastructure. Or to raw mineral collection from asteroid farming. Things that are scarce and expensive right now could become commonplace and reduced in value for everyone.
