http://www.physorg.com/news201229702.html
Really?...Wouldn't such a thing act like a lightening rod?-one of the biggest obstacles to building a space elevator is space debris-
Really?...Wouldn't such a thing act like a lightening rod?-one of the biggest obstacles to building a space elevator is space debris-
Exactly. I think the shuttle "tether" incident pretty much assured that eventuality.Sparky wrote:-one of the biggest obstacles to building a space elevator is space debris-
Really?...Wouldn't such a thing act like a lightening rod?
Wal Thornhill issued the same warning:Really?...Wouldn't such a thing act like a lightening rod?
It would be a modern day version of the "tower of babel," no doubt leaving NASA speechless." Technically it's feasible," said Robert Cassanova, director of the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts. "There's nothing wrong with the physics."
Here we have another example where technology has outstripped science.
So, when Robert Cassanova says "There's nothing wrong with the physics" we may be sure that he means the old, electrically sterile physics applied to the cosmos.
The continual cosmic discharge, which powers the storms on Earth, must be considered when placing long conductors radially to the Earth. Some years ago, the tethered satellite experiment suffered a plasma discharge that severed the tether cable as it was being reeled out from the space shuttle. That phenomenon will be repeated on a grand scale in any attempt to stretch a conducting elevator cable from Earth into space. The power that drives regional thunderstorms will be concentrated into a single cataclysmic thunderbolt, destroying the elevator cable like a thin fuse wire. In the worst scenario, the 50km high ground station will be replaced by a neat, circular crater, like those seen elsewhere in the solar system and attributed, erroneously, to meteoric impacts.
http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=r4k29syp
If only that were true! Unfortunately, they only tend to remain speechless until they're able to come up with some loopy impossible scenario like: "Scientists say that the space elevator disaster was probably caused by a meteor whose trajectory and location exactly matched that of the doomed space elevator, vaporizing the entire structure on its way to the impact that left the massive crater at the base."nick c wrote:It would be a modern day version of the "tower of babel," no doubt leaving NASA speechless.
Don't you mean, will they say that? To quote the late Graham Chapman (of Monty Python fame): "Wait for it. . ."ElecGeekMom wrote:Did they really say that???
Hilarious.Wal Thornhill wrote:The continual cosmic discharge, which powers the storms on Earth, must be considered when placing long conductors radially to the Earth. Some years ago, the tethered satellite experiment suffered a plasma discharge that severed the tether cable as it was being reeled out from the space shuttle. That phenomenon will be repeated on a grand scale in any attempt to stretch a conducting elevator cable from Earth into space. The power that drives regional thunderstorms will be concentrated into a single cataclysmic thunderbolt, destroying the elevator cable like a thin fuse wire. In the worst scenario, the 50km high ground station will be replaced by a neat, circular crater, like those seen elsewhere in the solar system and attributed, erroneously, to meteoric impacts.
I'm sure they would make up some kind of quasi-plausible explanation, maybe something like this:nick c wrote:It would be a modern day version of the "tower of babel," no doubt leaving NASA speechless.
I am assuming that they would send the cable up to the anchor point or manufacture it as it was lowered toward earth....either way, as soon as it was let out a few hundred miles there would be problems, trouble, trouble right here in river city!Osmosis wrote:Before they start reeling out the cable, we can sell Faraday suits to the operators at the winch site.
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