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@My-King-And-I saidSuch an elevator would run along one or more cables anchored by a counterweight in geostationary orbit.
You think some elevator shaft some 10 miles high or more, I dunno, is even feasible?
I first learned of this idea from a book by Sir Arthur C. Clarke in the 1970s, but it already had a history before that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
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@My-King-And-I saidIf you can anticipate such a thing, others can too. (BTW, because of advances in material engineering, the cables might have a much smaller diameter than that, and I imagine there would be plenty of surveillance to guard against cable-snippers.)
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Imagine the damage from a huge cable, miles long and 3 feet thick, crashing to earth 😲
This is a lesson I learned when I was a teen-age science-fiction fan, who once idly wondered in the 1970s, "Why not just accelerate a ship at 1G to provide Earth-normal gravity for the passengers (then of course there would have to be a mid-journey protocol to stow everything and strap everyone down before the ship cut its engines and flipped around to start decelerating at 1G toward its destination).
And about a year after I thought about that, I read a novel by Sir Clarke that mentioned something very much along those lines.
As a result, I had this more general notion: If the elements of an idea are in the air at a given time, they might be likely to combine in more than one head shortly after. (That was half a century before chatbots.)
@diver saidseveral years back they were asking for folks who wanted to go to mars
would you go?
i think it was an exploratory census of some sort, i've slept since then and do not remember much else
i told em i'd go, in a heartbeat
they told me i was too olde
i wrote naughty poems about their mothers
i would go right NOW
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@rookie54 saidMy family has an ancestral estate in the Tharsis Ridge area and you would be welcome to lodge there if you paid for your other expenses, but Mars just isn't what it used to be.
several years back they were asking for folks who wanted to go to mars
i think it was an exploratory census of some sort, i've slept since then and do not remember much else
i told em i'd go, in a heartbeat
they told me i was too olde
i wrote naughty poems about their mothers
i would go right NOW
😢😢😭
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@Torunn saidYou’d actually do that to the Martians? Say, you are mean, aren’t you?😲
I would never go myself, but sending Trump, his entire administration and others like him on a one-way ticket into orbit might be good.
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@Great-Big-Stees saidNobody could live on Mars, not even Trump & Co.
You’d actually do that to the Martians? Say, you are mean, aren’t you?😲
Edit: Since he wants to rule the world, perhaps living on Mars would give him a better perspective.
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@diver saidIf it's for free I'd go to Baghdad 😅
I’ve been chatting with a member here about various holidaying and this thought came to me; who here would take a trip into Earth’s orbit? Let’s put aside politics and focus only on the current available rocket technologies and their associated safety.
It’s free for you; would you go?