Re: Lunar Space Elevator simply isn't for everyone

Art Deco wrote:
Brad Guth <ieisbradguth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Essentially, everything can be built-to-suit the given task and
situation at hand (even somewhat modified on the fly), thus
accomplishing whatever it takes for keeping the CM/ISS tethered to the
moon, as well as a dipole tether reaching to within 25,000 km of Earth
is entirely doable. Just because there are a few pesky variables, this
isn't the least bit of a problem unless you're another damn pagan fool
from Naysayvill.

What this ongoing LSE-CM/ISS task demands is the prosayism of the likes
of whatever Ross A. Finlayson can contribute, whereas being
naysay/negative obviously isn't going to help. Any damn fool (aka
William Mook) can be the naysay buttologest, whereas it takes actual
brains and a touch of remorse from those contributing to the cause
that's going to make a difference.

Can you list all these naysayers, Brad?

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"Causation of gravity is missing frame field always attempting
renormalization back to base memory of equalized uniform momentum."
-- nightbat the saucerhead-in-chief

To the space elevator, naysayers to the space elevator as a feasible
hope for SCRATS, Safe, Cheap, Reliable Access to Space? Uh, there are
several. Consider: Uncle Al. He does not see the Space Elevator's
feasibility.

If you go look at the plans for the actual space elevator, they involve
a perfect carbon nanotube with length some three to five times the
circumference of the Earth? Then, a spool of that is launched and then
the end threaded to a little rocket and that shot back into a giant
pincushion of sorts, unrolling the spool or actually forming the carbon
nanotube in payout as the rocket shoots back to Earth? Then that will
not be affected by Earth weather, Coriolis, UV radiation, or other
suspects of damage of the
single-point-of-failure-that's-125000-m-plus-long that is the cable?

Then, it involves a large counterweight in Earth orbit. I'm not for
having dinosaur killers in Earth orbit, what with the Moon being there
already.

The nice gentle supposed ride on the Space Elevator involves a
leisurely stay in the ionizing radiation of Earth's ionizing radiation
belts, and a leisurely stay after that for most forms of Earth life in
the hospital.

Brad, I can't say I support the CMM/ISS idea either. If it were on the
other side of the moon, that might be more feasible. Then if the "10
megatonne" kilometer-plus diameter counterweight gets loose it doesn't
land on Earth.

Clarke said something along the lines of that the Space Elevator will
be possible some fifty years after people stop laughing about it. Many
things have changed since then, for example it's been about a quarter
of a century since a man even left orbit. Many advances in carbon
nanotubes have been made, with the merest _possibility_ that they might
approach the required tensile strength, they're about halfway there, in
tensile strength, in millimeter lengths. That, is, much of it.

Ross

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