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[Urwumpe]

Now I'm confused, I thought it had something to do with chemistry:idk:

No, it means a prehistoric network architecture called "Token Ring" (I was trying find find something around FDDI, never realized that this was a token there, thought it was a coin).

An electronic token is passed around in a ring shaped network, and who received the token may send, while all the others can only listen.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Quite true, although I would think that having orbital access as cheap as the elevator is supposed to be would make cleaning up Earth orbit feasible with small unmanned drones giving satellites a deorbit nudge.

The biggest space elevator problems to me would be:
-What is it made out of
-How do we actually deploy it (ground up, GEO down?)
-What can we use for a counterweight

I'll have to do some more research into the subject, I recall having an interesting PDF on the subject somewhere.

Nanotubes, GEO down, and an asteroid and an extension of the elevator, respectively.

 

[Aeadar]

Nanotubes, GEO down, and an asteroid and an extension of the elevator, respectively.

GEO down and outward, I would think, since the center of mass would need to stay geostationary.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Point. Although you could build it parallel to the surface, then rotate it to the perpendicular direction

 

[Aeadar]

I'm trying to visuallize that, and I keep coming back to a 24.500 mile long ring around the planet.

To keep it straight, with the centerpoint, well, I suppose at 12,250 miles alttitude...wow.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

No, you have the center of mass at GEO, then rotate the entire assembly down after completion. Didn't say it was a GOOD idea! :lol:

 

[mojoey]

You could build it at the North Pole... (True north, not magnetic)

 

[MaverickSawyer]

:huh:? How would you make that work?

 

[Pipcard]

Mind blown
Perspective - Part 1 - Compression Artifact - YouTube

Even more confusing

 

[mojoey]

:huh:? How would you make that work?

Lots of dog sleds. Seriously though, instead of building it where it would be flung outwards, why not build it where the only stresses would be weight, and torque from the rotation of the earth.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Then it would cover half the planet to handle the compressive loads. That's the beauty of the tensile designs at the equator: it's a hell of a lot lighter and smaller, and you get a kickstart outbound if you detach at the counterweight end.

 

[Izack]

Point. Although you could build it parallel to the surface, then rotate it to the perpendicular direction

Leaving a long trail of very unhappy people when the pendulum of death comes swinging down. :lol:

 

[Scav]

a prehistoric network architecture called "Token Ring"

Yup. You've got it.

 

[Urwumpe]

The biggest German airport, Frankfurt am Main, has been just closed because of the strong winter return this month. It is not uncommon that winter returns in March here, but this time, we have almost more winter in March, than we had in January.

I had again 5 cm snow on my car this morning, makes in sum with with the weekend 20 cm snow - and that in the mild German flatlands.

 

[MattBaker]

It's March, not June. Often enough we even had snow in April.

But it's always funny to see the reactions of the people, especially the ones with summer tires:lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

It's March, not June. Often enough we even had snow in April.

But it's always funny to see the reactions of the people, especially the ones with summer tires:lol:

Yes, but such amounts of snow are a bit uncommon. I can't remember that Frankfurt closed because of massive snowfall in March.

 

[Notebook]

UK has come to a complete halt(slight exegaeration). Continent is cut off.

http://www.eurostar.com/dynamic/_Sv...ANG=UK&_AGENCY=ESTAR&country=UK&lang=UK&VT=EB

Passengers will not be able to travel on Eurostar services today and should not come to our stations.

good advice.

N.

 

[Urwumpe]

Just received the urgent news, that a few km north of Frankfurt, a mass karambolage happened on the A45, with over 100 cars involved. Also during strong snow fall.

Well, the 100 cars isn't really the special thing there, such things happen pretty often here.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Wow, the contents of the world's first email have been uncovered at last!

From Ray Tomlinson himself.

 

[mojoey]

Wow, the contents of the world's first email have been uncovered at last!

From Ray Tomlinson himself.

[email protected] ?