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    Love in an Elevator?

    The thought of getting stuck in this lift (elevator to non Brits) just wigs me out.

    A mere 30 years after Arthur C. Clarke first mooted the idea of running super-thin, lightweight cables into space and tethering them to a satellite in his book The Fountains of Paradise, Japanese scientists reckon they're ready to bring all the parts together and make it happen.

    For a relatively low in space travel terms bill of £5bn, the boffins think they're close to solving the carbon nanotube technology issue that could make the existence of 22,000 mile-long cables possible. That amount of rope or even Ethernet cable would snap under its own weight, but carbon nanotubes are light enough to go from Earth to a satellite. They just need to be made four-times stronger than they are today.

    The Japanese scheme apparently favours stringing up an additional nanotube alongside the elevator to carry the power, allowing the cars to power themselves into space using a similar system used by the Japanese bullet trains. They are so serious about it they have registered a domain name - check out the Japan Space Elevator Association for more news. It's in Japanese, mind.
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    And drunkards returning from an evening of extra-terrestrial debauchery will pee in the corner. Which could get nasty in zero gravity...

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    What the? RANDOM.
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    Cool! Skyhooks, beanstalks or the Tsiolkovsky tower among other names.

    These have been depicted in loads of Sci-Fi novels and TV series. There was even one in Star Trek Voyager, in the episode Rise!

    But my favourite use of Skyhooks was in the book Rainbow Mars.

    Would be cool to see a real one actually working. Would you travel in one though?

    Imagine the possibilities though. Finally you could have most more affordable space travel. People and materials transported into space via the elevator and a docking port at the other end of the tether where ships could dock. You could then have space based ships for faster travel around the Earth to other elevator docking points to take another elevator back down to the surface. Would definitely speed up travel from the UK to Australia! Although I'm not sure that is such a good idea!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harrison View Post
    Would definitely speed up travel from the UK to Australia! Although I'm not sure that is such a good idea!
    Definitly not!!!! Who'd want Submeg popping in for tea at any time!!!

    I first read about the Sky Elevators in 3001 and in that the elevators went up to a manmade ring around the planet outside the atmosphere which is where everyone left on earth lived. Global warming. Fcuk it. Lets live outside the atmosphere!!! (Russ Abbot singing in the elevator).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buleste View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Harrison View Post
    Would definitely speed up travel from the UK to Australia! Although I'm not sure that is such a good idea!
    Definitly not!!!! Who'd want Submeg popping in for tea at any time!!!
    Harsh. But then I would have all you moaning poms moaning about how ___________ is ______________. (fill in the blanks with appropriate words)

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