GEORGE BUSH AND CONSERVATIVES IS AN EVIL DEVIL! HE SHOULD NOT BE REECELCTED!!! [subliterate alert]

[NicknamedBob]

By the way, you don’t want geosynchronous orbit, (or whatever the appropriate term is). Venus rotates too slowly.

Besides, we don’t care about the surface. It many ways, it would be like the bottom of the ocean on Earth to us. Possibly useful as a source of raw materials, but there would be no need to go there, or tie into orbiting a spot on it.

Much better to pick up a regular wind current, and ride along with it. You still need a really long tether, and the ups and downs of that are going to be a continuing problem, but fifty clicks up is the place to be.

Actually, you don’t need the tether once you get into position, but just how do you get there? I think we should try this, and a tether will give us a way of getting our produced goods off-planet at reasonable energy expense.

[ThomasThomas]

Is subliterate a word that a literate person would use? If you were illiterate and got some learning, would you literated or would you have under taking a literation.

Also, dose a rhetorical question need a question mark.

[NicknamedBob]

"Is subliterate a word that a literate person would use?"

Yes.

"If you were illiterate and got some learning, would you literated or would you have under taking a literation."

Undertaking alliteration is actually an advanced course.

"Also, dose a rhetorical question need a question mark."

Absolutely! Otherwise, you're just talking to yourself.

[Dead Corpse]

The plants will notice. It'd take a couple years for them to adapt to a such a radically different diurnal timing. We can mitigate this by using the mirrors/lights to "lengthen" a 24hr day cycle until we match Venus.

We lose our crops of hops, grain, and corn... gonna be some cranky creatures to deal with.

[Dead Corpse]

Matching wind speeds is not going to be a picnic. Orbit isn't predicated by rotation, but by gravity gradient. At 80% of the mass of Earth, it'll have 80% of the gravity and you'll need 80% orbital velocity to stay "up top".

We won't have the early problems we had testing tethers in Earth's atmo. The mag field around Earth turned our carbon tube tether into a giant transformer. No such problem on Venus as it's mag field is almost non-existent. This also means that solar storms will have a bigger effect on our equipment. Keep a weather eye on Sol, we'll need to hide behind the planet if he hiccups.

[Tax-chick]

Good morning. I see we haven’t left for Venus yet; the catz would have mentioned it.

My husband is on a trip today and tomorrow, so we slept late (after 7!).

[Tax-chick]

[Tax-chick]

Oh, here’s where the crickets have gone!

[Dead Corpse]

We're still working out some issues. If our obital velocity needs to be 86400 KPM/h, we're going to incurring a whole lot of aerodrag if we use the skyhook tether option. Even at 50km above Venus' surface. At 1 Atmo relative, even accounting for CO₂/SO₂ density, we'll still be doing Mach 72.

Even using the "balloon gondola" idea, we'll still need to transition our orbital speed downward, and retain the ability to get off world again when we're done sightseeing...

I wonder if we couldn't set up a plasma slipstream effect. Encase the Castle in a huge plasma bubble that would give us an effective fraction of the drag to deal with... The firework oughta be gorgeous. Like being "inside" a candle flame...

[Tax-chick]

I trust you guys to do it right!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Urk.

(Robt considers small size of Robt’s below side, and contemplates problems of not having a big enough below side to generate warming from re-reflected solar glow to keep topside from becloning a cold side....)

[Tax-chick]

We may just have to fan ourselves.

[Robert A Cook PE]

(Robt causally notes that, usually, one (or two) sleeps later than 7:00 PM when the husband is NOT on a trip out of town ....

[Monkey Face]

My below side is always the cold side, no matter how warm the topside is.

And it’s 76 degrees outside.

[Tax-chick]

Sometimes ... although when catz start nibbling one’s extremities, it’s hard to ignore no matter who else is there.

[Dead Corpse]

Keep an eye on a newbie for me. VanillaBlizzard. He’s my intern here at work. Nice kid. Told him to ghost here for a bit to pick up the feel of the forum before posting. ;-)

[Monkey Face]

Will do!

Hiya, Vanilla! Welcome to the Undead Thread (aka The Flying Castle!)

[Tax-chick]

Hello! Pat’s poorly again. I gave him some medicine so he wouldn’t throw up, and he’s gone to bed. Going to be a long winter at this rate.

[Dead Corpse]

A little something to keep you all occupied while Bob figures out how to make a hyper-hyper-hyper-really hyper-sonic envelop for the Castle.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/pumpkin_sim.html

[Dead Corpse]

Loves me this one too...

http://www.lawatchdog.com/SecondRevolution071108.html