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To: cripplecreek

We need a new way to look at getting a big payload into orbit without having to have 10,000 HP rockets lifting a tiny payload each.

We need a Space Elevator!

28 posted on 07/17/2015 5:53:12 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")

To: Alas Babylon!

Yep, another simple idea that makes space more accessible.

I’m personally not interested in interstellar flight in respect to this thread so much as I am interested in making our solar system more accessible. The space elevator combined with mining and manufacturing in space and on the moon would make space much easier.

3D printing in space is another thing that could lead to great leaps. Even rocky asteroids could be pulverized and turned into concrete for printing into massive hulls for the large ships we really need for long duration time in space. We currently send life rings to space with a couple of men when we really need aircraft carriers with crews of dozens or hundreds.

32 posted on 07/17/2015 6:08:01 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)

To: Alas Babylon!

What do you make the cable out of?

33 posted on 07/17/2015 6:14:14 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)

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