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...a method to connect the Earth and the moon with a cable
Business Insider ^ | 17 Sept 2019 | Ruqayyah Moynihan

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; dumbass; hinduropetrick; moon; science; themoon; violateskeplerslaws; wontwork; zylon
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To: DUMBGRUNT
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?

Yeah, but you know some clown is going to get on there right after you and push all of the buttons.

81 posted on 09/18/2019 6:12:42 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Note: The editors of Business Insider are crazy....


82 posted on 09/18/2019 6:16:48 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: GreenHornet
Yeah, but you know some clown is going to get on there right after you and push all of the buttons.

... and then let one rip!

83 posted on 09/18/2019 6:19:07 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: dsrtsage
Wouldn’t the moon have to be in geosynchronous orbit?

Yup, and the orbit would also have to be perfectly circular, not elliptical as it is now. "Apogee-whiz, there goes our cable!"

84 posted on 09/18/2019 6:19:13 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (“They are openly stating that they intend to murder you. Prep if you want to live.”)
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To: BuffaloJack

Brilliant!


85 posted on 09/18/2019 6:28:41 AM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Where is Roebling?

Everybody wants the old Kraut engineers to improve our “technical standards”!

Not much demand for the guys involved with chain bridges?


86 posted on 09/18/2019 7:04:21 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: Do_Tar

“Space Tethers” have been a concept since 1895.

I had always heard of ‘space elevators’, now I see that is just a small subset!

Thanks.


87 posted on 09/18/2019 7:10:51 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: lgjhn23

Like the,”Missouri Boat Ride,” from The Outlaw Josey Wales.


88 posted on 09/18/2019 7:14:34 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: Bob434

Time WaRNER Cable? Psssst- Time warner- there’s no one up there to get your channels- not a sound business idea

That would be a major improvement for Comcast.
No one there to hate them!


89 posted on 09/18/2019 7:22:47 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: doorgunner69
“ But, can it perform the “cat’s cradle”? “

Harry Chapin can do it.

90 posted on 09/18/2019 7:25:12 AM PDT by Redcitizen (Tagline not secure.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Even if it is anchored to a geosynchronis satellite instead of the moon, the other end must be anchored to the earth. The forces on the “leash” as the earth rotates would be enough to prevent the satellite from remaining in orbit unless it were of extraordinary mass. Those forces would be caused by friction (drag), the earth’s rotation, and anti-centripetal forces. Variations in wind velocity as storms pass through would raise havoc with calculations of the drag forces, causing the satellite to whip back and forth.

Don’t fool with mother nature.


91 posted on 09/18/2019 7:33:45 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Make America Great. Prosecute Dems who break the law!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Ralph Kramden is very interested.


92 posted on 09/18/2019 7:37:14 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: Real Cynic No More

Every simulation I have seen for stuff like this make too many assumptions. The physical forces that need to be accounted for I am sure we a)Don’t know them all, b) the ones we do know we don’t understand them well enough to do this.


93 posted on 09/18/2019 7:37:53 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Billthedrill

I think Businesses Insider has a low budget AI system that slices and dices the originals while adding flashy keywords.

But everyone knows ‘only the gods dwell in the details’.

Some actual detail:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614276/a-space-elevator-is-possible-with-todays-technology-researchers-say-we-just-need-to-dangle/


94 posted on 09/18/2019 7:38:05 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: lurk

Such a cable would have considerable mass. So to stop it from falling, it would have to be balanced at the other end by a similar orbiting mass. The entire elevator would then be supported by centrifugal forces.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614276/a-space-elevator-is-possible-with-todays-technology-researchers-say-we-just-need-to-dangle/


95 posted on 09/18/2019 7:41:43 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: Reily
There is one technology out there that could do this...if you blow hard enough.


96 posted on 09/18/2019 7:42:12 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
These must be the same scientists who claim climate change is settled science. 8>)

The short answer is it wouldn't work.

97 posted on 09/18/2019 7:44:57 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Deaf Smith

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614276/a-space-elevator-is-possible-with-todays-technology-researchers-say-we-just-need-to-dangle/

Click ‘read the whole story 823 words’

A better synopsis.


98 posted on 09/18/2019 7:45:07 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: Deaf Smith

“If it is not grounded, it is not safe”

A GFCI will work in an ungrounded circuit.

Sometimes you feel a quick ‘shot’, so I have been told.


99 posted on 09/18/2019 7:50:38 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: Big Red Badger

A pan flute arrangement of “In-A-Godda-Da-Vida” would be about the right length...


100 posted on 09/18/2019 7:56:47 AM PDT by Yardstick
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