Why doesn't the ISS look like this...
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An elevator. With a really strong wire
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It's a good idea: Space elevator - Wikipedia[^]
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
An elevator.
Space elevator - Wikipedia[^] Indeed!
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence OperatorsBut Tsiolkovsky's original suggestion was a tower.
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It's a good idea: Space elevator - Wikipedia[^]
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I know, the best part of that page is the calculations.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
An elevator.
Space elevator - Wikipedia[^] Indeed!
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence OperatorsThere is a very good book by Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise, about the building of the first space elevator.
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We need bigger rockets!
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Alternatively, very tiny astronauts.
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https://www.productiondesignerscollective.org/single-post/2016/05/15/Connecting-The-Dots---2001-A-Space-Odyssey[^] on the inside, instead of this: https://mk0spaceflightnoa02a.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/dm2_iss.jpg[^] Well, the point being, it's so cluttered!
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https://www.productiondesignerscollective.org/single-post/2016/05/15/Connecting-The-Dots---2001-A-Space-Odyssey[^] on the inside, instead of this: https://mk0spaceflightnoa02a.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/dm2_iss.jpg[^] Well, the point being, it's so cluttered!
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence OperatorsThat's good :thumbsup:, the next time someone comments on state of my desk, my new (less antagonistic) response will be "If it's good enough for the space station, it's good enough for me!"
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The ISS also has much less than a millionth of the useful volume (going by the [2001: A Space Odyssey Docking Sequence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48rh85d4yTI))
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I know, the best part of that page is the calculations.
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My surprise is the number of reasonably qualified people who have pursued this idea for 125 years, when the calculations show that with current materials (over those 125 years), we many magnitudes away from being able to build such an elevator. There is only one reasonable explanation for that: These people never did the calculations. (And they didn't have Wikipedia to give it to them :-)) Even today, we are theorizing about nanomaterials that might be strong enough. I didn't see any estimate of the total amount of nanotubes required, but it occurs to me that those USD 6 billion for building the whole thing is slightly on the optimistic side. If those estimates hold true, we might even use a similar solution for an electricity generator: Put a little extra weight on the counterweight to pull the rope slowly outwards. In the earth end, the rope is pulled from a huge spool; the rotation of the spool drives the generator (through an almost unimaginable gearbox that probably will require another nano-development of strong enough materials). Maybe we end up with such a demand for carbon that we can't allow coal to be burned for heating... :-)
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https://www.productiondesignerscollective.org/single-post/2016/05/15/Connecting-The-Dots---2001-A-Space-Odyssey[^] on the inside, instead of this: https://mk0spaceflightnoa02a.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/dm2_iss.jpg[^] Well, the point being, it's so cluttered!
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence OperatorsI wonder if it started out looking less cluttered, and then, upgrades...
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https://www.productiondesignerscollective.org/single-post/2016/05/15/Connecting-The-Dots---2001-A-Space-Odyssey[^] on the inside, instead of this: https://mk0spaceflightnoa02a.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/dm2_iss.jpg[^] Well, the point being, it's so cluttered!
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence OperatorsCo-incidentally I found this yesterday "Street View" of IIS International Space Station — Google Arts & Culture[^]
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My surprise is the number of reasonably qualified people who have pursued this idea for 125 years, when the calculations show that with current materials (over those 125 years), we many magnitudes away from being able to build such an elevator. There is only one reasonable explanation for that: These people never did the calculations. (And they didn't have Wikipedia to give it to them :-)) Even today, we are theorizing about nanomaterials that might be strong enough. I didn't see any estimate of the total amount of nanotubes required, but it occurs to me that those USD 6 billion for building the whole thing is slightly on the optimistic side. If those estimates hold true, we might even use a similar solution for an electricity generator: Put a little extra weight on the counterweight to pull the rope slowly outwards. In the earth end, the rope is pulled from a huge spool; the rotation of the spool drives the generator (through an almost unimaginable gearbox that probably will require another nano-development of strong enough materials). Maybe we end up with such a demand for carbon that we can't allow coal to be burned for heating... :-)
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My surprise is the number of reasonably qualified people who have pursued this idea for 125 years
People searching to solve the impossible are the one that makes science leap forward. The amount of things we can do or build today that was impossible 100 years ago is quite staggering. Then of course, the amount of things people thought would be easy to solve but still aren't is also really large. :)
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https://www.productiondesignerscollective.org/single-post/2016/05/15/Connecting-The-Dots---2001-A-Space-Odyssey[^] on the inside, instead of this: https://mk0spaceflightnoa02a.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/dm2_iss.jpg[^] Well, the point being, it's so cluttered!
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Abusing Extension Methods, Null Continuation, and Null Coalescence OperatorsClose enough! :D
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