Space Elevator - Stuff They Don't Want You to Know #Mind Blow

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2. Why bother... Be like Muslims
   
   Just follow some book written centuries ago, that has everything you need
   End of story
3. 4 giant blimps and a square platform in middle to stay close enough to connect to a space station is will make it easier to come through the atmosphere
4. Hmmmm. Is this a thing? It would seem to be most practical to anchor the earth end at the equator. It doesn't need to be in the ocean. There is plenty of land at the equator. The dynamics would seem to be simpler at the equator. Now, you have an anchor point that has a rotational velocity of about 1,000 mph. If the upper anchor is at a distance 22,000 miles, then it is moving at about 7330 mph. So the elevator has to accelerate from 1,000 mph to 7,330 mph rotational velocity. This means that it will resist being lifted until it's sped up to whatever the orbital velocity is at any given altitude. The elevator will lag and pull the cable out of linear. Like a bowstring being pulled. That will take energy from the orbiting anchor by pulling it down towards Earth and pulling the Earth up toward it. The difference in mass means the only the upper anchor will move noticibly while the Earth will be displaced by a fraction of a fraction of a nanometer. The energy would be returned as the elevator got past the halfway point and the cable returned to linear. I think some sort of lateral thruster will be needed. As far as powering it up and down, why not use two cables and make them conductors? Nano carbon is almost a super conductor. High voltage travels over the exterior of most conductors and so, coupled with the high conductivity (low resistance), they would be excellent conductors. Research has been done by NASA to harvest electricity from orbiting "antennae". It was a sort of failure, since it had so much current induced in it that it melted the experiment. The power may be up there for free. In fact, the bigger problem may be PREVENTING extraneous current from being captured by the "ribbon" or cables. Consider the effect of a large CME, something like a Carrington Event on a very long conductive cable.
5. Dude! Are you afraid of the dark also? "stuff they don't want you to know" is what? This is one of the most pathetic videos on YouTube. At least tell us what kind of drugs you are taking. Best of luck but this is terrible.
6. tie a balloon on it lol
7. probably work great on mars or the moon
8. look at the layout for the german solar panels at 4:01
9. Space elevator, I know... nano tubes. not going to happen EVER! Need something else! What do high end hockey sticks and space elevators have in common? NOTHING! Because one of them does not exist. All this talk over a decade, no one has gone more than a few inches. Half way to the moon, really!
10. One word: "hurricane."
11. the related keywords...
12. nano 100 times stronger than steel.
13. I am still not sure who "they" are and why they don't "want you to know". Maybe we'll meet sometime.
14. If "Global Warming"... sorry, "Climate Change" is anything to go by, this Space Elevator project won't make it off the ground (pardon the pun). There will be people pronouncing "But it causes an effect on the speed of rotation of the planet which will lengthen the time of day by 0.8 seconds in 100 years! How on Earth are we going to deal with such CATASTROPHIC CHANGES!
15. they could use same tech. as building a dome over huston..
    its not impossible to build a space elevator ...
16. 500grand to get there now
17. If they made elevator to moon the elevator could rip half because the earth rotate and also the moon rotates this could cause danger and this could possibly not happend
18. Instead of a space elevator which requires a ribbon to be strong enough to hold up it's own weight, maybe we need to have a space Hypertube that is strong enough to SUPPORT it's own weight from the ground.
    
    Then we can use vacume/Air pressure technology to propel a elevator up.
19. The problem with Neil Degrasse and Michigan Kaku, is that they seem to ignore that the fundamental systems that keep humanity going are doomed to fail soon. The upcoming energy crisis, rising sea levels, overpopulation, food shortage, water shortage are all converging at the same time. Some scientists believe the reason we haven't seen any evidence for intelligent life with advanced civilization is because, like us, alien civilization would have run into the same problems along their technological development. (Assuming carbon based life), So once civilization reaches the tipping point, all disasters converge forcing the people of said civilization to regress to a point that while still technologically advanced must keep a precarious balance with what's left of their world and the vastly diminished numbers of their species. So I believe once we reach our collapse and two thirds of humanity die what's left will probably live in highly advanced cities of no more that 100,000 each spread out through the planet. And there won't be much room for growth in these cities because unlike the fossil fueled industrial networks that support our mega cities, those small highly advanced cities will rely on green energy. No matter what you believe no other form of energy (with the exception of nuclear fusion) gives the same amount of return as fossil fuels. So 2 billion people spread around the world in small self sustaining cities will have little incentive to pour there limited resources into colossal engineering feats that have little chance of success and even less material return. I grew up loving science fiction, Issac Asimov, Arthur C Clark, Robert Heinlein, their ideas were far reaching interstellar human empires, galactic wars. Arthur C Clark was more reasonable his stories like Imperial Earth, Space Odyssey Etc, we're grounded in hard science fiction but still very much ignored the problems of current society that prevent things like space elevators and geocentrical habitats floating around earth. Anime, video games, novels, all stuff I loved and absorbed as a kid growing into teen. The. I got to college and after graduating with a degree in biomedical engineering, with a minor in structural engineering I realized we are hoping for a dream that most likely will never come true. But like Aerosmith says dream on.
20. I like the idea of a ribbon instead of a cable; just way more practical.