[AlmightyPyro] wrote:Yes, But the ELEVATOR to the moon is supposed to be made out of Nano Tubes, or something to that effect. Even though their super microscopic, when linked together it's one of the strongest materials in the world. (THE strongest metal). And like KKB said, it's not litteraly going to the moon, just to an orbiting space station past the earths atmosphere, that way space ship's fuel use is reduced greatly since there is nothing to fight against.
Heheh. I love bad science. Nano tubes are made of carbon, they're not a metal.
A space elevator would require a sizable mass at one end, probably an asteroid, which would keep the stalk aligned.
Personally I still think this is a long way off. We should be focusing on nuclear. Nuclear is the future!
Actually, I heard the 'elevator' is more like a teather (Or however you spell it) It's not a solid elevator. Imagine an elevator without a shaft around it. That's what I've heard, anyway.
[AlmightyPyro] wrote:Yes, But the ELEVATOR to the moon is supposed to be made out of Nano Tubes, or something to that effect. Even though their super microscopic, when linked together it's one of the strongest materials in the world. (THE strongest metal). And like KKB said, it's not litteraly going to the moon, just to an orbiting space station past the earths atmosphere, that way space ship's fuel use is reduced greatly since there is nothing to fight against.
Heheh. I love bad science. Nano tubes are made of carbon, they're not a metal.
A space elevator would require a sizable mass at one end, probably an asteroid, which would keep the stalk aligned.
Personally I still think this is a long way off. We should be focusing on nuclear. Nuclear is the future!
Actualy I was just stating what I had read on some thing my science teacher gave out. It was a report off some Discovery channel site. and besides I did say "Nano tubes, or something to that effect" I don't remember what it was, but the point was, that it was super duper strong and was able to hold up.
I'm glad 90's style forum signatures don't exist anymore.
Buckminsterfullerene. The third allotrope of Carbon. Otherwise known as buckyballs, fullerenes or nanotubes. The basic buckyball looks like a football (imagine a sphere made of hexagons where there's a carbon atom at each vertice. Now imagine cutting a buckyball in half, wrapping graphite into a cylinder and sticking a buckyball at each end. That's a nanotube.
Chaos Cricket wrote:I say we just say "to hell with all of this" and invent a working teleporter.
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