Posted on 03/28/2017 12:36:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If that tower grazes NYC’s airspace, the owners will get a property tax bill.
How do you get back in?
Via catapult/trebuchet.
Or, the 200 million Africans who will need to migrate out of Africa by 2050 or starve to death.
These people are vulgar with their waste.
“Or the muslim scientists miscalculate that math thing?”
Out of deference to the perfection of Allah, Muslims will deliberately introduce flaws into their work.
If that’s a single misplaced knot in a fancy rug, fine.
If that’s a single wrong character in an engineering task, multiplied by the number of engineers working on an enormous project, that becomes high odds of catastrophic failure.
Being a tiny bit off when moving an asteroid into geosynchronous orbit, well, not good.
If you can keep it from swinging into mountains it might make a better space elevator than the Clarke. It can be supplied by helicopter and tons of stuff can be orbited on the cheap.
Either an early April Fool joke or someone really doesn’t understand orbital mechanics.
I don’t see any problems with it.
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No no, you have it all wrong, this will work.
“By placing a large asteroid into orbit over earth, a high-strength cable can be lowered towards the service of earth from which a super tall tower can be suspended,”
Total nonsense. If gravity and atmospheric forces didn’t snap the cables first, then drag on the parts in the atmosphere would eventually pull the asteroid down into a degraded orbit and re-entry. Goodbye life on planet earth as we know it.
“The Archies dreaming this thing up were on drugs for sure with this brainstorm”
... and you can be sure it was architects who dreamed it up, without ever bothering to consult an engineer or astrophysicist.
“And where is this asteroid?”
Another “minor” problem with the scheme. We don’t have the technology yet to move asteroids and park them in orbit. Theoretically perhaps, but we can conceive of anything theoretically.
You just don’t understand muslim physics.
“Hope” is the key word there. The variable wind shear forces at different altitudes affecting the structure would probably tear the thing pretty quickly. If not, the hanging structure is basically going to act as an anchor pulling the asteroid towards the earth.
Gravity.
Among other things.
Like hell. What will they do with the disabled? Throw them out of the building? They sure as hell can’t use a parachute (neither can the vast majority of ordinary people).
This is even more dumb that the idiotic idea of using a cable attached to Earth to tether a station miles high, with access by an “elevator” that would go up and down the cable.
Since they want to build it in Dubai they don’t need perpetual motion machines. They can fire harpoons into the asteroid, and attach the harpoon cables to winches which will be turned by slave laborers on treadmills.
This is a Simpson’s episode in the making.
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