Life would be so boring without the occasional idiotic mistake. No reason not to 'fess up' tho
Well I finally went out on the web and found a description of what you are talking about, the total cable length is 100,000 or so km extending well...
Huh? Have you ever done center of mass aka center of gravity calculations? It is mathematically impossible for the COM to be at the terminus unless...
Every point on the elevator is moving at less than orbital velocity except the terminal GEO end. At the surface it would be moving at about 1000 mph...
focal plane??? Any astronomical photo has every object in the same focal plane...infinity.
Since only the end tethered at geosynchronous orbit would have orbital velocity I don't see anyway that it could do anything other than fall down....
What about the Chandra Limit?
Life might be a tad difficult, the outer ring seems to be new hot blue stars, no fun to be near with all that uv and gammas. Probably lots of novas...
There are some very interesting crab nebula movies taken by the Hubble and Chandra over about 6 months: [IMG] The facinating thing is that you...
Ah is this the fellow? Paul W. Dixon, PhD. Professor of Psychology and Linguistics Social Sciences Division University of Hawaii at Hilo
I just tend towards the sceptical when I see people tagging themselves with an advanced degree. He could have a Ph.D from MIT in Physics and have 5...
I've been impressed by a number of sources lately on how little we know about gravity: 1) G is only known to one part in 10,000 and various...
Having lived in Florida since the late 50's I've been thru at least 6 or 8 Hurricanes. I've been thru two eye crossings. And I rode out a typhoon in...
Well actually emission lines are primarily a function of electron states, molecular species can modify the lines but this is a minor effect.
Thanks! Nice to be here.
What you are seeing, when you see colored flames, is electrons dropping back from an excited state to a rest state. The heat of the flame pushes some...
Why would cryptographers be expected to decypher an unknown language? Unless they have some sort of key, like the Rosetta Stone, then they have no...
Re: Ooooo, aren't we feeling arrogant today The OKLO reactors only worked since the concentration of U-235 was high enough to permit a light water...
As for those natural reactors, they are no longer possible since natural uranium's U-235 concentration has decayed below the critical level. Same...
>the epoxy paint that you paint the hull with is called 'anti-fouling'. Well sometimes it is, there are epoxy primers too. What makes a paint...
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