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Inflatable ‘space elevator’ invented by scientists
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| Sarah Knapton,
Posted on 08/16/2015 7:23:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BwanaNdege
I still think the way to go is the oldest and simplest.
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posted on
08/16/2015 8:12:37 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/16/2015 8:13:18 PM PDT
by
Crystal Palace East
(Are Crybaby Conservatives, calling everyone else RINOs, really Dems trying to get you to not vote?)
To: BenLurkin
The mass of a runway (yes, an actual runway) 12 miles up is unworkable. Add to that the winds (in different directions) along that 12 mile cylinder.
Timber!!!!
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posted on
08/16/2015 8:13:39 PM PDT
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datura
To: BlueDragon
That is one of my favorite songs. It’s weird, though... because I like Slayer too.
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posted on
08/16/2015 8:40:49 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: BenLurkin
Yawn, we will never see this implemented in our life time - I’m willing to bet on it. They’ll just sit on their patent and prevent anyone else to develop it. I hope theres a shelf life of these patents. If nothing are moving forward then they lose their patents
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posted on
08/16/2015 8:41:48 PM PDT
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4rcane
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/16/2015 8:44:20 PM PDT
by
BlueNgold
(May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
To: BenLurkin
It would obviously have to be built over DC to have half a chance at gathering the amount of hot air needed for inflation
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posted on
08/16/2015 8:44:48 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/16/2015 8:50:31 PM PDT
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jetson
To: BenLurkin
In stage two of construction, “then a miracle happens” , will Not build confidence in getting this thing completed
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posted on
08/16/2015 8:53:06 PM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: 4rcane
Yawn, we will never see this implemented in our life time - I’m willing to bet on it.
That's because it's insane.
They’ll just sit on their patent and prevent anyone else to develop it.
Even the "US Pat Off" isn't that nuts, and that's sayin' something.
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posted on
08/16/2015 8:57:15 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
To: Rodamala
It's not one I would want to hear everyday, but I had to laugh when I heard at again, first time for a long time.
Parts of the lyrics were as fitting as the title.
To: BenLurkin
They can yammer all they want about complex arrangements of flywheels compensating for “bending” and such, but we physicists in-the-know here know damn good and well that the thing is going to be held up with skyhooks. That’s the only thing that’s going to work.
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posted on
08/16/2015 9:18:20 PM PDT
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catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: UCANSEE2
Far too complex!
Mine is a cross between an industrial strength version of this:
this:
and this:
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posted on
08/17/2015 1:09:31 AM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("When the left wins, they're in power; when the right wins, they're in office." - Mark Steyn)
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