Peter Blue speculates that the first 100 years of the Space Age will have bookends of Sputnik and the Space Elevator…
Daily Archives: April 21, 2006
Top 10 Ways To Destroy Planet Earth
If you’re into theorizing how our Planet can be destroyed, do I have a webpage for you. The Space Elevator is used in Method #4.
Space Elevator Dreams
Over at the Steelsphere.com blog, the author speculates on what a tourist trip on a Space Elevator might be like…
Another skeptic…
I just ran across this interesting thread, discussing the possibilty (or not) of a Space Elevator. One of the contributors, an “nhughes1” (who states that he is a long-time Aerospace Engineer) declares that a Space Elevator is flatly impossible. The last post on the thread is nearly 9 months old.
I’m not a Physics major, so I can’t comment on his calculations. I wish I knew his email address – I’d refer him to the Edwards / Westling book and ask him for his comments.
Jijaki Space Elevator
I don’t know when this webpage was created, but in it, SF Writer Robert J. Sawyer displays a table of “Apparent gravity in cab going up the Jijaki space elevator, assuming the cab is rising at a constant speed of 110 km/h”