A space elevator is a proposed transport system with a cable from Earth's surface to beyond geostationary orbit, kept taut by Earth's rotation, allowing electric climbers to shuttle cargo and people into space cheaply and safely, bypassing rockets. The main challenge is creating an incredibly strong, lightweight tether (like... carbon nanotubes), but concepts for Earth, Mars, and the Moon exist, with some companies aiming for completion by 2050. 🧐🤔show more

Sounds great, until the next hurricane.

I was surprised to learn that the energy to send something in orbit is far less the "elevation" of the satellite in altitude, than the speed it need to have, around the earth. Therefore an "elevator" having any interest should look like that, attached at 2 sides on earth 😇

Somebody chops it off at the bottom and it just flings out in the space 😃

The Tower Of Babel...

Looks like the exhibit in Epcot Center!… good dining there…

New genre of music- space elevator music - excited to hear it if anyone has any already or what it would sound like

So it’s going to be over 22 thousand miles long? And somehow gravity won’t be pulling it down? Never going to happen.

Then one Indian semi truck driver hits an illegal U-turn and you got a gravitational carbon whip.

Geostationary orbit is very far from the earth’s surface, so this doesn’t sound very feasible… 🤔 But space elevators are great things for science fiction stories!

Did the earth stop spinning?

I feel like when you reach the top you would be thrown out into space like a sling shot from the eccentrical force

This is the elevator to the Space Restaurant in Epcot at Disney World Orlando. It was cool but the physics of it didn’t seem plausible to me.

Okay and so what do we expect this descent to be like🌚🌝?

@grok is this real ?

Won't work in Florida, needs to be on the equator. Maybe by 2150 ?

This would be a Short circuit between ionosphere and ground. Several mill. Volt and currents about GA. So forget this shit.

@grok is this actually possible

Ah Space 220 at Epcot. Good place to eat.

Have you ever dropped a chain from height? Imagine what this thing would do when it snaps.

That is some heavy BullShit

@grok esto es viable física y financieramente ?

omgosh sooo much baloney being peddled by science cucks

I am far from an expert but have thought about this before. I came to the conclusion that a fixed elevator would not be posible but if there was a winch in space then we could pull people into space. Same problem arises with the cable strength/length 🤔

Bit of gaffer tape would sort it.

Sounds great till gravity.

@grok es real? Es verdad que lo están analizando? Científicamente es algo posible?

What happens when the tether breaks?

And who first proposed it, and in what book?

2050~!? If I'm still around then, I'll miss the Earth when there was nothing in the sky. 😪

Fascinating

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Some idiot in a plane will hit it.