{"id":1638,"date":"2014-08-24T13:25:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T18:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2014-09-30T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T05:01:11","slug":"living-on-cloud-9-or-what-we-could-do-with-a-lunar-space-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"Living on Cloud 9: Or What We Could Do With a Lunar Space Elevator!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/2014SEC\/Sunday\/IMG_5092F.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/2014SEC\/Sunday\/tn_IMG_5092F.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" height=\"159\"  width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Next up was author Paul Wieland.\u00a0 He talked about &#8220;sphere habitats that could be built on the moon and then &#8220;launched&#8221; to earth via a lunar elevator.\u00a0 Paul said that Buckminster Fuller came up with this idea of sphere habitats (we&#8217;re talking about spheres 1,000 or 1,500 meters in diameter) and that, because they would be inhabited and that the inhabitants generate heat, this heat would cause the sphere to float.\u00a0 He quickly ran through the numbers which claim that this could be true.\u00a0 Frankly, I have to think about this and look at the numbers more thoroughly before I accept this as do-able, but the idea is very intriguing.<\/p>\n<p>I have never heard of this idea before, but a quick Google search turned up a number of sites that discuss the concept, for example <a href=\"http:\/\/greg.org\/archive\/2009\/09\/13\/floating_cloud_structures_or_we_all_live_in_a_fuller_satelloon.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geniusstuff.com\/blog\/flying-cities-buckminster-fuller\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next up was author Paul Wieland.\u00a0 He talked about &#8220;sphere habitats that could be built on the moon and then &#8220;launched&#8221; to earth via a lunar elevator.\u00a0 Paul said that Buckminster Fuller came up with this idea of sphere habitats (we&#8217;re talking about spheres 1,000 or 1,500 meters in diameter) and that, because they would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}