Re: Can we now build the space elevator?

From: Ted John Kerry Kennedy (tjkk_at_schlonguslongus.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:36:10 -0500

I have invent another type of space elevator, which avoids ALL the previous
problems.
It uses Helium filled balloons connected to a Chair, with a panel.
The person sits in the chair and presses the button on the panel, which cuts
the cord that has been holding him to the ground.
The panel also provides a wrap around effect that the person sees as the
interior of an elevator.
He rises up, and up and up, till he gets to his floor and gets off.
No structure needed, no vibration dampening No power needed at all!

I haven't figured out how to go down yet. that is next.

"aSkeptic" <scott@yannitell.com> wrote in message
news:dde6cfc4.0408292020.460114dc@posting.google.com...
> I hate to rain on everyone's space elevator dream..
>
> Until a fiber with the required tensile strength can be produced in
> the required lenghts it will never happen. When this amazing new
> material becomes a proven technology then things like space elevators
> might someday work.
>
> The hype I hear about space elevators being around the corner (so to
> say) is really optimistic. Its not easy to make a perfect fiber tens
> of thosuands of miles long, let alone a nanotube. Bulk produced 70 Gpa
> TS fibers would enable more than just space elevators. But I'd rather
> not count chicks before they hatch.
>
> Its not as bad as planning to build a NRE with 20,000 kelvin exhast
> temperature using nothing more exotic than regenerative cooling to
> keep it from blowing up. Gee.. all we need is a ceramic that melts
> 25,000 Kelvin! Why that kind of discovery is just 30 years away.
> Buahahahaa!
>
> Seriously though, whoever finds a way of making nanotube fibers in
> bulk for cheap will be a gahgillionare.
>
> good luck all