Masquerouge
Deity
Well I might be totally off here, but my impression was that while the thing has a mass, it's completely self-supported by design, and as such it should be pretty easy to move.
Space Elevator successes
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Well I might be totally off here, but my impression was that while the thing has a mass, it's completely self-supported by design, and as such it should be pretty easy to move.
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
Nobody's mentioned today's xkcd yet?
Y'all are slipping...
Y'all are slipping...
Really think the elevator wold be used for people to ride it to space too? cuz from my understanding that wouldnt be reasonable and they are talking about sending up materials.
not directed at any one of you but it seems people in real life think that..
not directed at any one of you but it seems people in real life think that..
lovett
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Don't see any reason why it would be infeasible...
I would be a long trip.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
I don't think so, but I might be wrong. The weight issue is of greatest importance to the parts that would be inside the atmosphere, but I imagine it would effect all of it out to the halfway point (about 33,000 miles up), because the other half's weight balances the first half's, in addition to the benefits of being in geosynchronous orbit.
Carlos Mencia is the antithesis of funny.Well it could presumably stop before it gets to the end of the tether. I think the greater issue is that, it being so expensive (and so few, I would imagine), we would have much better things to ship than people on them.
aelf
Ashen One
I don't need to go the whole way up. I just want the best base jump EVER.
And I'd think that it'd be cheaper than paying for rockets.
West 36
Can count up to 4
Kenya should get it.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Spoiler :
Is that the guy who bailed out of a weather balloon in the stratosphere? He's supposed to be the first and only man to break the speed of sound unaided by anything but gravity.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Hey I'm up for some Hog Soccer. Though I guess that was only in Halo 1. 
I was thinking more the shattered remains of the MAC platform and its connecting space elevator in the background.Hey I'm up for some Hog Soccer. Though I guess that was only in Halo 1.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
I never bothered much with the single player, probably because I never owned the game.
The place where the space elevator will be is irrelevant, because it will become American territory.
Perfection
The Great Head.
You know what the coolest thing about space elevators would be?
Space Elevator Music!
I bet it would be all hardcore electronica stuff, but in a friggin' awesome totally jamming sense not like the need to take X to appreciate sense.
Space Elevator Music!
I bet it would be all hardcore electronica stuff, but in a friggin' awesome totally jamming sense not like the need to take X to appreciate sense.
aelf
Ashen One
If the Space Elevator is supersonic, its music can only be broken.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Unless the music is travelling at the same speed you are, in which case you'd be fine.
I think the music going up should be "Stairway to Heaven" and going down should be "Highway to Hell."
I think the music going up should be "Stairway to Heaven" and going down should be "Highway to Hell."
Nylan
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I was tempted...
