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__Bonk__ Posts: 5,122 Registered: 2009-7-25 03:04:52	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: I wish we had a moon base now
	So we can send Newt up there to live -----signature----- I keep my eyes fixed on the sun! A change in feeling is a change in destiny.
Yossarian_42 Title: RUSH > ALL Posts: 1,046 Registered: 2002-2-28 11:23:20	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: I wish we had a moon base now
	-----signature----- If I have burnt my bridges I will walk on water. If you're on the shore, then you're sure not me, oh My seething wrath and urge for blood is fueled by searing hate. I'm X X X bitch, triple X rated.
Kordirn Title: Pirate Prince Posts: 1,513 Registered: 2004-4-19 01:15:26	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: I wish we had a moon base now
	The nazis would just destroy it. -----signature----- ooOooo oOoOO OOo
Mag-Galahad Posts: 72 Registered: 2002-2-26 22:26:05	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: I wish we had a moon base now
	that would be quite a ride. I sometimes get a bit of pucker factor when I stand by the edge of a tall building like the empire state building. Imagine looking out the window as that thing is going up...and up....and up. -----signature----- I was told to change my Sig., so I did.
Lyken-P Posts: 453 Registered: 2006-1-14 18:41:19	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: I wish we had a moon base now
	Sooo... you're nominating Newt as ruler of the Moon?
Urk_VN Title: Orderly Randomizer Posts: 337 Registered: 2002-10-30 17:31:32	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: I wish we had a moon base now
	I think I read that to be stable, the space elevator would have to be 22,000 miles (about 35405 km) long. Which means anything that's traveling on that would have to be obscenely fast, or else it'll be a long trip for whatever's on it (not to mention the base of it being a popular target for a terrorist attack).
Elkad Title: aka Ebenezer Posts: 407 Registered: 2003-9-11 22:20:55	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: I wish we had a moon base now
	22,000 miles would need a really big counterweight. Easier to make it longer instead (several times - I think about 60,000 is the accepted figure), and then you can also use the whippy end to launch deep space craft at dozens of miles per second. And the idea for elevators is multiple cars. So nobody cares if it takes 24hours to reach the top. -----signature----- "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

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