i'll be too old to play with them. 
Topic: Japan announces plans to have a space elevator (Read 1585 times)
Awesome ! but by 2050 i will be around 60 i'll be too old to play with them.
i'll be too old to play with them. The thing about a space elevator is that to make it even work at all there'd have to be gravitational equilibrium in the structure, there would barely be any load on the foundation of the structure, therefore you could build in crazy countermeasures against earthquakes and the like.
Right. And I doubt if a hurricane would even be noticed by a space elevator cable. That'd be like a hurricane hitting something 100x as strong as steel....However, terrorists could be a problem, because although the material is strong, it would weaken under temperature increases.
Typical japs. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
Typical Honeypot. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
What's the problem - got pricked enough to pop out and start bitching?
I love how you never realize the irony and hypocrisy of your posts. It's pitifully cute.
It's amazing how many people rise to this guy and don't realise what a moron he is just from looking at the post history lol 
It's really hard to tell whether he's a troll or just a childish moron.
You have no idea what any of that means
Ever heard of the phrase 'spit lying down'?
People who think themselves 'intelligent' these days are really mouthy fuckers
With pseudo-intellectual fools acting 'non-racist' 'intelligent' and 'fair' without a shred of real experience in anything you talk about (or if you were in a position to gain experience, instead you ran from it), no wonder the powerful find it easy to control you all.I reflect your manner of speech and tone in just a few posts, and every single bitch starts crawling out of their holes to start moaning like whores haha
Material science is one of the fastest advancing fields of technology so I have no doubt the ability to manufacture carbon nanotubes (or perhaps other as yet undiscovered materials) will be around by 2050. Nonetheless, the capital cost and political will to build a space elevator will likely remain significant challenges. My personal prediction is that we will likely build space elevators on other planetary bodies before we build one on Earth. For example, a space elevator on Mars would have much reduced structural requirements, could be built with materials obtained in-situ on Mars, and could be a key piece of infrastructure in initial efforts to explore and colonize Mars. Once the concept is proven and its benefit clear to a large number of people, it will be more plausible to try to rally the needed support to building one on Earth.
I don't know how the hell these people come up with projection like this.
Pretty sure we were promised flying cars 30 years ago and nothing happened
Pretty sure we were promised flying cars 30 years ago and nothing happened
Typical japs. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
Typical Honeypot. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
What's the problem - got pricked enough to pop out and start bitching?
I love how you never realize the irony and hypocrisy of your posts. It's pitifully cute.
It's amazing how many people rise to this guy and don't realise what a moron he is just from looking at the post history lol
It's really hard to tell whether he's a troll or just a childish moron.
The thing about a space elevator is that to make it even work at all there'd have to be gravitational equilibrium in the structure, there would barely be any load on the foundation of the structure, therefore you could build in crazy countermeasures against earthquakes and the like.
Right. And I doubt if a hurricane would even be noticed by a space elevator cable. That'd be like a hurricane hitting something 100x as strong as steel....However, terrorists could be a problem, because although the material is strong, it would weaken under temperature increases.
This is just a marketing stunt to garner attention to the company. We are not even close technology wise, and you cannot guarantee a product for a date when it is currently physically impossible.
Basically this is correct. Here's the way it goes.Show us some working long nanotube cables.
Now show us some longer ones. How about some really, really long ones.
Then....
Show us some tethers hanging out behind satellites and how they perform.
....really long ones....
Then the pieces can be started to be talked about being put together.
Japanese making big claims recently about technology. First stadiums with hologram projections of World Cup games and now a space elevator by 2050?Did someone tell them they aren't actually in an anime?
Also, the construction should be somewhere on the Equator, so Japan itself is not current as a place for construction.
The thing about a space elevator is that to make it even work at all there'd have to be gravitational equilibrium in the structure, there would barely be any load on the foundation of the structure, therefore you could build in crazy countermeasures against earthquakes and the like.
This is just a group of scientists and engineers talking about a possible future project. The materials for construction do no exist currently to build a structure ~40,000km high.
Typical japs. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
Typical Honeypot. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
What's the problem - got pricked enough to pop out and start bitching?
Begone to the ignore list. Haven't seen any constructive comments from you, only badmouthing, so I don't expect to see anything good either...
It's amazing how many people rise to this guy and don't realise what a moron he is just from looking at the post history lol
Typical japs. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
Typical Honeypot. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
What's the problem - got pricked enough to pop out and start bitching?
Begone to the ignore list. Haven't seen any constructive comments from you, only badmouthing, so I don't expect to see anything good either...
LOL
Typical japs. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
Typical Honeypot. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
What's the problem - got pricked enough to pop out and start bitching?
Begone to the ignore list. Haven't seen any constructive comments from you, only badmouthing, so I don't expect to see anything good either...
Typical japs. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
Typical Honeypot. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
What's the problem - got pricked enough to pop out and start bitching?
One part of the world is discussing a space elevator while another part believes that the appearance of a red cross worker will lead to ebola. In 100 years we will look back and laugh at how strange it was that certain areas were able to so effectively stunt their own societal progress.
Typical japs. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
Typical Honeypot. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
Typical japs. All that mouth and little to back it up with.
This is just a marketing stunt to garner attention to the company. We are not even close technology wise, and you cannot guarantee a product for a date when it is currently physically impossible.
People as a species should start thinking several generations forward and cooperate across nations if they want to survive, rather than wondering if you'd get 150% revenue tomorrow and wondering where to start a war to get that revenue.
And for the naysayers, to put things into perspective, it's only some 60 years ago that we started venturing into space, and only some 110 years ago that we started flying, but the dream was there long before that.
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