/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16190308
political posters are like an infectious disease that compounds into rot if left untreated. Once a board begins to tolerate their presence, it is as good as dead.

>>12250916
Folks, this is where the magic happens. Incredible to finally have the real scale of the payload section in front of our eyes.

I fucking love capitalism and Elon Musk. Shine on, based rocketman. Orbital flight next year for sure.

>>12081326
Don't care, still voting for Biden.

>>8946307
Yeah if we can build a fucking sphere around our star I think moving a small planet would be no problem

What do we get in return for this $450 billion investment?

Virtually unlimited value. For example, with a space elevator we can reliably launch our nuclear waste into the sun. We've spent $100 billion building a waste repository in Nevada, but it was ultimately decided not to even use it. Now it costs only a dollar or two per kilogram to get rid of all of the nuclear waste in the world.

Second, we have immediate access to viable asteroid mining industry. Because the cost of delivering payloads to LEO drops to about $1/kilogram, we can not retrieve asteroids with trillions of dollars worth of minerals for mere tens millions of dollars in addition to having an easy viable way of returning those resources back to the surface.

We acquire the ability to deploy profitable solar power in orbit above cloud cover and with the ability to return said power back to the surface with near zero loss by running power transmission cables down the elevator.

Just how profitable?

With increased luminosity in space, enhanced exposure time, and the ability to deliver base loads, solar panels pay for themselves in only 1-2 years while having a 20 year life time.

In other words, if you put $5 trillion of solar panels into space, you get your $5 trillion back by the end of year two and a $5 trillion income stream each year thereafter.

In other words, the US could cut everyone's taxes, both personal and business, income, capital, death, or otherwise, all to 0%, not even cut any benefits or current spending, and pay off the national debt within a decade.

force transmits al the speed of light max so it ant be unbendable

he plank will bend and the wheel will rotate faster in the center and anyway it would require infinite energy

>>8388510
It took nearly 1/4th the age of the universe to go from simple organic compounds to cells with nucleus
It's not like it happened over night

>>7551032
That'd be cool as fuck, I'll stay hydrated while committing genocide with little to no effort