Re: We can meet all our needs through space development

On Jan 29, 8:54 pm, BradGuth <bradg...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 29, 3:12 pm, simberg.interglo...@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg)
wrote:





On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:50:52 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
Eric Chomko <pne.cho...@xxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

On Jan 29, 4:31 pm, BradGuth <bradg...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 29, 1:05 pm, Willie.Moo...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

And a Clarke station, or Clarke orbit as you call it, s a station in
what is today called a Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit - GEO.  I
mentioned GEO several times - this IS the Clarke orbit.  The satellite
remains stationary above the Earth.  So, operating in that orbit
provides a means to beam energy from an unmoving point in the sky to
placed on Earth.

Funny you don't know that.

Silly old me, I didn't realize the our moon or that of its L1 was "an
unmoving point in the sky".

The moon as nothing to do with a Clarke orbit. As Mook stated it is a
GEO orbit. Same spot always over the earth. Read:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary

Funny as hell that we're not even remotely on the same page.
Obviously you've never known what the Earth/Moon L1 or of anything
Clarke Station was actually all about, much less of where such is.

Wong! Lunar L1 WRT Earth is a place near the moon that keeps an object
between the earth and the moon. Actually barycenter of Earth and moon
is a better description.

It's not only not a better description, it's not even correct.

It is one of the points at which gravitational and centripetal
accelerations in the earth-moon system are in balance.

That's true enough, although it's actually an interactive balance that
has to be continually managed by use of thrusters and/or by having a
tether connecting that space habitat outpost/gateway to the moon.  The
Guth LSE-CM/ISS is using a tether of roughly 60,000 km that's
connected into the moon, along with a 2nd deployed tether dipole
element that's directed towards Earth and reaches its termination
platform to within 2r of Earth.

Do you have numbers to back your tether?
.

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