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10572239 No.10572239 [Reply] [Original]

I'm becoming more and more fearful that without a Space Elevator, humanity will never become a space-faring species.

I fear this, because I know Space Elevators are physically impossible.

>> No.10572399

>>10572239
>never

We already are space travelers, you idiot

>> No.10572412

>>10572239
You could've been an astronaut yourself if you applied yourself much enough, stop whining. Get rich as fuck and you can even go with some private company within your own lifespan

>> No.10572441

>>10572239
Its physically possible, but its just economically and practically impossible right now.

>> No.10572451

>>10572239
Space elevators are utterly shit ideas.

>> No.10572453

space elevators are a bad idea
supposedly a moon lagrange point elevator would work for lunar lift, but if you're doing lunar lift why not just use a mass driver?

>> No.10572455

>>10572239
what we need is a very very very long cannon that can eject things at supersonic speed but with constant acceleration

>> No.10572459

>>10572239
>Space Elevator

Maybe the biggest meme in space topics (with terraformation)

>> No.10572462

>>10572441
>Its physically possible

[citation needed]

>> No.10572466

>>10572455
A train in a tunnel fits your definition

>> No.10572469

>>10572459
my personal favorite meme space idea is the skyhook
it's literally a troll physics idea

>> No.10572477

>>10572239
Don't worry, Anon.
Space elevators are perfectly do-able on the Moon and Mars.
Now you know what the first step is.

>> No.10572481

Space is a meme
Skyrim anime harem virtual reality is where the future is.

>> No.10572490

>>10572455
>cannon
>eject
>constant acceleration

Someone dont understant how cannons work.

>> No.10572491

>>10572481
Fuck VR skyrim.
I just noped out of there the moment there were giant spiders.

>> No.10572492

>>10572481
Sad but this is what innovations were/are : facebook, intagram, snapchat, twitter. This is what we call innovation now.

>> No.10572734

>>10572481
Ironically it is much easier and cheaper to develop cheap interplanetary flight than cheap realistic vr

>> No.10572824

>>10572412
>You could've been an astronaut yourself if you applied yourself

I can't apply myself to making my eyes not-colourblind, you fucking faggot

>> No.10572846
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10572846

>>10572462
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/472Edwards.pdf

Not him but I found this..?

>> No.10572849

>>10572239
>>10572441
>space elevators
Fucking meme idea

Why wait for carbon-nanotubes or some other sci-fi shit when you can literally even better Orbital rings with 80s technology and current materials

https://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/OrbitalRings-I.pdf
https://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/OrbitalRings-II.pdf
https://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/OrbitalRings-III.pdf

>> No.10572962

>>10572849
I refuse to believe that they'll be stable

>> No.10574008

>>10572846
Umm.. what's a geoduck got to do with it?
(I'm a bit slow tonight)

>> No.10574027

>>10572846
This is pre-graduate level at best

>> No.10574040

>>10572734
Instead we should focus most of the world's best minds in making a universe simulator, and run VR on that.

>> No.10574360

>>10574008

Impossibilities are rarely so

>> No.10574420

>>10572846
Just wanted to mention since no one else said it.
Why does the guy holding the geoduck have no nails nor fingerprints?
It's just a pink ripple sausage hand.
Those are not fingerprints.

>> No.10574430

>>10574420
Hes probably a clam digger. If you spend all day everyday digging in the salt flats youre going to wear down your hands.

>> No.10574446

>>10574430
He doesn't fucking have fingernails though, and his fingers are just ripples.
He is made of play-doh, that's not normal.

>> No.10574452

>>10574446
On closer inspection. Those are orange gloves anon.

>> No.10574453

>>10574452
That's a weird glove, at the fingernails it sort of goes down a bit.
You are right, though.

>> No.10574519

>>10572824
Im sure thats on the bottom of the list of reasons

>> No.10574522

>>10574519

Automatic disqualifications would be at the top of the list, if I'm not mistaken. Why go through the whole checklist just to get to the whole "Hey, do you know what the colour Green is?" question