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Re: NASA IS GOING BACK BABY
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 6 Feb 2007 20:45:07 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Brian Davis wrote:
> It's that it's not *cost effective* to do it.
I would add *yet* to that.
> > As tourism leads to better "rocket-ships"...
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> Perswonally, I think we need to dump "rocket ships" altogether, and go for
> either fixed tethers (space elevators), hypersonic skyhooks, or the like. But
> no, those aren't very Classic space, and would be difficult MOC*.
Hmmm... I don't know a town layout on the floor with a "space elevator" to a
manufacturing platform way up on a shelf could make a really cool albeit parts
intensive MOC.
-Mike Petrucelli
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| (...) The problem is rockets use reaction mass, and need to carry it along, so the rocket equation enters into everything you do. And honestly a rocket is not a very good way to use the energy: you have to launch at high speed (rocket equation (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) I did some preliminary studies for building a space elevator. I think with some very significant selective compression of the diameter (and length) of the cable, the anchor station and the cable cars could be done. I was considering the LoM (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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| [somewhere far away in the internet, a poor soul struggles valiently to stay on-topic... "it's not LEGO!!" he screams, but the siren song of inccorect physics draws him screaming back into the fray once more...] (...) I still have my doubts. It's (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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