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Talen
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http://www.sciencenews.org/20021005/bob9.asp
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| Posted: 08-Oct-2002 21:45 Post subject: RE: Space elevators |
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Cool...it'll be years before someone does it prolly. *sigh*
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| Posted: 09-Oct-2002 09:56 Post subject: RE: Space elevators |
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didn't they use the same thing in one of the Space Oddesy books?
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| Posted: 09-Oct-2002 14:52 Post subject: RE: Space elevators |
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no... i don't recall any, BUT i did see its use in an anime i whatched called....
"Armitage III: Dual Matrix"
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Slythis
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| Posted: 09-Oct-2002 15:40 Post subject: RE: Space elevators |
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This was a wonder in Civilization: Call to Power, it built a space colony above the city it was built at.
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Ares
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| Posted: 09-Oct-2002 20:18 Post subject: RE: Space elevators |
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It's also in all the Armored Core series games, and probaly many others as well.
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| Posted: 09-Oct-2002 22:16 Post subject: RE: Space elevators |
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loved armored core.
imagine bt with core designs like that.
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| Posted: 09-Oct-2002 22:30 Post subject: RE: Space elevators |
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Actually, after some comparison, I find that the designs don't cross over well. Good game though, filled wtih quick action.
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Slythis
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| Posted: 09-Oct-2002 22:45 Post subject: RE: Space elevators |
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VERY good game, I've been thinking about making a Hex based game that crosses BT, AC, Gundam, and Robotech, each mecha style having it's own advantages.
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Talen
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| Posted: 10-Oct-2002 00:25 Post subject: RE: Space elevators |
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I think there is a Macross game.
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| Posted: 11-Oct-2002 01:21 Post subject: RE: Space elevators |
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I've read about space elevators before. But the one thing its advocates never seem to comment on is what happens when one eventually falls out of orbit. Everything breaks sooner or later, would building such a thing be worth losing whatever it falls on to?
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Slythis
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| Posted: 11-Oct-2002 20:10 Post subject: RE: Space elevators |
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That why you build it over the ocean, nothing too fall on.
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| Posted: 13-Oct-2002 07:40 Post subject: RE: Space elevators |
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True, but a whole lot of people would be upset about the tidal wave.
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| Posted: 13-Oct-2002 13:33 Post subject: RE: Space elevators |
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If the break is low, then it doesn't fall, it is flung off into space. It the break is high, then the city is still shot off into space, but the beanstalk falls to earth. Relatively low mass, and things composed of mostly air collapse into a relatively tidy pile. Coriolis effect could cause it to topple however, but only due to its extreme height.
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Rarich
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| Posted: 23-Oct-2002 09:35 Post subject: RE: Space elevators |
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Fountains Of Paradise, By Arthur C. Clarke. It is science fiction, but it does cover a lot of the issues involved. They are also mentioned in the Warstrider Series, W.H. Keith.
One of the Sky-Els is severed, and ends up in a slowly decaying orbit. It would depend on where and how it was severed as to weather it behaves like a building or an orbiting mass. heck the fall might be so slow motion that some orbital tugs could get it back into place for repairs! I would prohibit building anything in the atmosphere tho' then all you would have to worry about would be "cables". stuff falling from orbit would burn up before impact, probably.
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