
Exploring Mars A Waste Of Money?
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Space elevator is an awesome idea. It's doable now.Atheist-Lite wrote:What if it takes a thousand years to develop the first space elevator? You lack patience.Coito ergo sum wrote:Atheist-Lite wrote:All this rocket fuel is wrecking the climate. It is time to reduce utterly these futile foolish attempts at conquering the vastness of outerspace and stopart behaving like primitive apes.
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Yes, because the solutions to our problems are to be found up there.fretmeister wrote:Should space exploration continue when there are problems on earth?
An answer from NASA: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/wh ... space.html
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Australia has an oversized military? Better do something about it, then.rEvolutionist wrote:We can't waste money on a space elevator. We've got an oversized military to fund. And GE needs to get tax credits. Screw science/engineering.
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I do. Why do you assume I don't? Are you getting butthurt that I pick on America too?
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No, I was just wondering where all the threads are that you've started about Australia. I'm interested in learning about it.rEvolutionist wrote:I do. Why do you assume I don't? Are you getting butthurt that I pick on America too?
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Sure you are.
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Not since GallipoliCoito ergo sum wrote:Australia has an oversized military? Better do something about it, then.rEvolutionist wrote:We can't waste money on a space elevator. We've got an oversized military to fund. And GE needs to get tax credits. Screw science/engineering.
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It's an awesome idea, but no, it's not doable now. We're like an order of magnitude away on the strength of materials.Coito ergo sum wrote:Space elevator is an awesome idea. It's doable now.
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I'm pretty sure Warren's right on this. But I agree it is awesome, and not impossible at some stage in the future.Warren Dew wrote:It's an awesome idea, but no, it's not doable now. We're like an order of magnitude away on the strength of materials.Coito ergo sum wrote:Space elevator is an awesome idea. It's doable now.
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I'm on the edge of my seat, holding my breath, waiting for all the threads critical of Australia...rEvolutionist wrote:Sure you are.
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How will we know until we actually try? Sure, a failure would be a COLOSSAL waste of money, but at least we'd know that we need to work more on high tensile strength materials.JimC wrote:I'm pretty sure Warren's right on this. But I agree it is awesome, and not impossible at some stage in the future.Warren Dew wrote:It's an awesome idea, but no, it's not doable now. We're like an order of magnitude away on the strength of materials.Coito ergo sum wrote:Space elevator is an awesome idea. It's doable now.
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Well, part of developing the project is advancing the materials. Folks working on the idea are pretty sure that strong enough materials are in our near future.
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Making super strong material for the elevator might translate into safer cars, or bridges that fall down less often or elevators that don't go into free fall. That's the great thing about research, you get surprised a lot.Coito ergo sum wrote:Well, part of developing the project is advancing the materials. Folks working on the idea are pretty sure that strong enough materials are in our near future.
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For a while we were trying every year.Svartalf wrote:How will we know until we actually try? Sure, a failure would be a COLOSSAL waste of money, but at least we'd know that we need to work more on high tensile strength materials.JimC wrote:I'm pretty sure Warren's right on this. But I agree it is awesome, and not impossible at some stage in the future.Warren Dew wrote:It's an awesome idea, but no, it's not doable now. We're like an order of magnitude away on the strength of materials.Coito ergo sum wrote:Space elevator is an awesome idea. It's doable now.
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The people I know in the space elevator business think adequate materials are 20-40 years off. I think some groups are still working on the stuff, and good luck to them.Coito ergo sum wrote:Well, part of developing the project is advancing the materials. Folks working on the idea are pretty sure that strong enough materials are in our near future.
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