Can they do it Jow Forums?
Japanese space elevator
Samuel James
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Jordan Adams
no
Christian Rodriguez
Short answer: no
Long answer: yes, but on the moon out into space. it's cheaper and not as hard to put in orbit. This could be good for helium-3 mining.
>Will it happen soon?
no because humans are retarded
Hudson Gonzalez
The amount of material it'd require to build something like that into space would be absurd. Maintaining it would also be a nightmare. All it takes is a few stray golf balled sized objects flying around orbit to destroy a good chunk of it.
Jonathan Sanchez
Dumb fucking idea. Kill yourself.
Kevin Jackson
oh wow you seem smart would you impregnate my wife? so we can have smart children like you?
Sebastian Garcia
Why not just use a rocket like a normal person; that thing is going to have to jut out of the Earth all the time.
Ryan Clark
sry im an incel, no can do
Luis Myers
with it sticking out like that, and the earth spinning, we might accidentally bitchslap some alien spaceship and start milky war 1
Ethan Brooks
>milky war
Ayden Richardson
>...1
already waiting for the second
Michael Sanchez
Also the amount of energy required to power something that long would be ridiculous. It'd be more expensive than sending a fucking chemical rocket up into space.
The entire concept is shitty science fiction.
Ryder Reyes
No, not on Earth. Physics won't allow it.
Jackson Lopez
not just now, our materials just aren't up to it.
Justin Ward
Short answer: no
Long answer: noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Angel Reyes
It’s never even been considered once, so no
Kevin Young
there is no material tough enough to keep it anchored and tethered barring carbon nanotubes, which are complex and costly.
Never mind the fact that maintenance would be a nightmare.
Adrian Peterson
>milky war 1
based
David Harris
That's talking about orbital rings not a space elevator.
Isaiah Bailey
What good would it do in space?
>hurr durr we've built a thing to get us easily into space, IN SPACE
That's like not running plumbing into your house and instead have a toilet above the sewer
Christian Ramirez
Good things come in pairs.
Andrew Howard
not if you have a strong enough and light enough material. Which we do. With colossal carbon tubes we could build a space elevator with a reasonable taper ratio:
en.wikipedia.org
DID YOU KNOW that the unit for measuring this is the Yuri? It's been determined that you need a material with around 30 MegaYuri's to make a practical space elevator. Colossal carbon tubes are in that range
>>helium-3 mining
total and complete meme. The amount of moon dust you have to bake is absolutely insane so the EROI is disappoint even if fusion worked
sug muh dick.
orbital rings have not been shown to be stable for the cases we can actually build. Orbital rings really do require an insane amount of material. Whereas a space elevator can be built with a reasonable number of launches, orbital rings are really only feasible if you have some major moondust mining capability.
David Parker
Having anything that tall is just asking for it to collapse.
Space catapults make more sense. It's very wasteful and counter productive to put all of that equipment on the moving object that lets it fly all the way up there. Providing a good chunk of the necessary force from the power grid on the ground is better.
If it can launch the rocket even 1/3 of the way, it was already worth it.
Robert Harris
No, I'm specifically talking about a space elevator. But, orbital rings, now that you mention it are also physically impossible.
Orbital rings are science fiction and you are delusional to think otherwise. Physics simply won't allow it.