/sci/ - Science & Math

You alleged smart people admit it and still insist on living in a pool of cognitive dissonance. There is no way we are leaving the gravity well on chemical rockets. Any half way smart 4th grader could see that. It's too expensive, too inefficient, and anciet technology. Instead of pushing the boundries of space exploration and engineering we are just spinning our wheels in the same place we've always been...

....You don't think they are fucking up on purpose do you?? PURPOSELY SLOW ROLLING SPACE EXPLORATION TO KEEP HUMANS FROM THE STARS!?!?!?!!?


Told you space fags i'd be back.....it only ends when you submit, I literally have nothing else to do but this....until I die from doing it.

ASK ME ANYTHING ABOUT THE SPACE ELEVATOR!

Is it just me or does a space elevator seem like a barely feasible pipe-dream that wouldn't be that useful anyway?

I mean, a geo-stationary orbit is so high the technology needed to build a ribbon that could handle the load of its own mass is well beyond us. By the time we actually develop the requisite technology wouldn't we already have a cheap, reusable SSTO vehicle? We already have the technology to build Skylon which is more or less just that.

Space elevators have always seemed stupid to me.