Posted on 09/17/2019 8:26:32 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Scientists have proposed a method to connect the Earth and the moon with a cable that will allow us to travel between them, but the European Space Agency isn't convinced
Two astronomers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Columbia have proposed a plan for a kind of elevator between the moon and the Earth.
Have you ever thought about what it would be like if we could just hop in an elevator, press a button, and head up to the moon?
According to the scientists' calculations, it would be possible to construct such a structure using existing technologies. The concept is "eminently plausible and may have been overlooked as a major step in the development of our capacity as a species to move within our solar system," they said.
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Time WaRNER Cable? Psssst- Time warner- there’s noone up there to get your channels- not a sound business idea
ohhhhhh- an actual cable you say? I see- heck yeah- let’s do it- it’ll be like the ball and chain of marriage- Gee- won’t the old man on the moon be pissed after being a happy bachelor for all these many years
bet this is a SF idea- they wanna give their homeless free trips to the moon everytime they gotta do a doody
I like,
“The Girl from Ipanema.”
That's a bit of an exaggeration. Current materials available will not do - steel, for example, would snap long before it reached the requisite length. This proposal only gets the rider from the moon to a geostationary orbit:
...instead of building the elevator from the Earth’s surface (which is impossible with today’s technology), it would be anchored on the moon and stretch some 200,000 miles toward Earth until hitting the geostationary orbit height (about 22,236 miles above sea level), at which objects move around Earth in lockstep with the planet’s own rotation.
So you still have a 22,000 mile drop to manage, or a 22,000 mile climb if you start at the Earth's surface. I'm thinking big-ass escalator myself. And then you're trapped in an elevator with a dude who had burritos and cheap beer for lunch, listening to Mantovani's version of Stairway To Heaven over and over and over and over...
If the cable were 1/4 inch thick, the weight of it from earth’s surface to non-gravity orbit would be hundreds of tons, and it would break.
And how long would it take to travel a nquarter million miles on a cable?
The cable (elevator) would have drag across the Earth surface.
The static electricity discharge would extreme.
The elevator might even glow due to electron discharge.
I remember the time a bottle washed ashore on the Coronado Strand and a sailor picked it up and genie appeared.
The genie mentioned that normally 3 wishes would be granted but since it was opened early there would only be one wish.
The sailor thought long and hard and said, I get tired of riding my ship to Hawaii, how about a bridge.
The genie explained that the wish was virtually impossible due to the distance, tides, storms etc etc so please give me another one.
“Well,” said the sailor, “how about explaining to me what the Liberals agenda is and what are the plans for the Presidental race?”
The genie scratched his head and said
“Wow, you sure have some different requests, anyway, Did you want that bridge 3 lanes each way or 4?”
The elevator theory is about as relevant as the flat earth one. At least not tethered to the moon. That is ridunculus.
That idea has been around a long time, and actually has a chance of working.
This is a great idea. With a tether to the moon, we’d construct a giant vessel. The thing to do is to pull on the tether’s end in such a way as to get the moon bounce around to eventually be captured by the vessel.
In this manner, it would be a huge game which would entertain the masses, while we go and spend similar sums on Climate Change, dealing with Neutron Stars that have gotten too big, and black holes that have grown out of proportion.
LOL!
Thsat’s great!
It’s a loony idea.
“If it is not grounded, it is not safe”
This has been a science fiction for at least 70 years or so and gets news time every few months or years. The last time this was big is when carbon nanotubes were all the rage.
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