Re: Space pier


"Michael Turner" <leap@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Look at the details. The thing would be a lot longer than it is tall
(more of an elevated track than a tower), several orders of magnitude
heavier than anything it throws, and made of diamond by using
(furiously-handwaved) molecular manufacturing processes.

I do wonder why Josh only mentions diamond. I would think carbon fiber /
epoxy ought to do even for 100 km. towers. Ping engineers -- comments?


Torque is the
least of the problems. The biggest problem is that you couldn't point
it in any direction you wanted. This would limit its applicability to
the all-important problem of how to quickly deliver pizzas to any point
on Earth from a central location, and thus make it far more difficult
to line up the needed capital investment.


Or just put things in orbit so they are half way to anywhere in the universe
energy-wise. You can deliver pizzas if you wish.


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