/sci/ - Science & Math

Why not build a space mountain? Then you can drive up into space. No rocket needed.

>>9905228

>>9651559
>build a space mountain so you can simply walk up into space and into orbit.

fitemuh

>>8832413
Space Mountain + Space Elevator?

Add in a Space Ring and I'll buy 10!

>>8822674
OP you shit for brains, get that railway out of my construction site.

SPACE MOUNTAIN COMING THROUGH

>>8813570
>youtube vid
>robot woman's voice
>cartoons

>>8813622
It won't work. That is a fantasy blog paper written in his spare time. The forces involved from the moon's gravity would tear it apart. Making it flexible simply means it will still fail, but in a more spectacular fashion as we watch wave propagation take place.

I'm not even going to go into discussion about radiation belts.

You may as well build a Space Mountain for all the good it will do. lol

>>8580943
>>8580950

>>8562505
Space Mountain!!!

Mars did it!

>>8560821
Funny how a space mountain is more feasible than a space elevator.

>>8314187
>if we had wizards who could make space mountains we could drive our cars to space!

That is literally what you just said, since there's literally no possible way what you said will come true.

>>8229206
The Earth's crust will start to cave in under the weight, shortening the mountain. Check out the largest volcano in the solar system, "Olympus Mons" on Mars. It is nearly 14 miles high, but it is very flat on top instead of being cone-shaped.

>>8164923
If it is too large it will collapse into a more spherical shape. That is why the largest volcano in the solar system isn't a gargantuan point and instead just a shield.

So, what you do is have them slightly below the collapse limit for their mass density-gravity.

>>8078368
Make a space mountain so you can just wheel barrow your satellites up then use a kite to get them into LEO.

>>8004769
>(highly doubtful)
>frogposts anyway

Or, you could just build a space mountain, right /sci/?