[cripplecreek]

Base jumpers mecca.

[struggle]

It’s not “invented” until it’s up in the air.

[Insigne123]

Consoladate high-rise housing in democrat cities

[Huskrrrr]

,,,and they’re buying a stairway to Heaven.

[JimSEA]

I recall ideas like this being floated in the 50s and 60s.

[GraceG]

Still a better use for money than welfare

[GraceG]

Wouldn’t the jet stream play havock with this?

[hinckley buzzard]

hey, go for it.

[Crystal Palace East]

But what happens when a line of Class 2 or better thunderstorms rolls through?

Remember the US Akron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron_%28ZRS-4%29

and the USS Macon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron_%28ZRS-4%29

[datura]

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!!!!

[4rcane]

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

[BlueNgold]

Tower of Babel?

[bigbob]

It would obviously have to be built over DC to have half a chance at gathering the amount of hot air needed for inflation

[jetson]

Won’t work.

[teeman8r]

In stage two of construction, “then a miracle happens” , will Not build confidence in getting this thing completed

[catnipman]

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.