"Suck Mary-Beth Suck!! Blow is just a figure of speech!!!"
"Suck Mary-Beth Suck!! Blow is just a figure of speech!!!"
Right, now we have that out of the way, thanks for the topic Squeak. The Wikipedia site is pretty good and has grown since I last read it.
There are all sorts of interesting science projects which we have the capacity but not the political will to explore. Fusion reactors, anti-matter, and space elevators are but 3 examples.
Jerry Pournelle told the US Congress in the 1970s that if they took the money from nuclear weapons development and devoted it to fusion power, we'd have working reactors today. Pournelle is a visionary scientist and Sc-fi author whose writings about the edges of scientific discovery are well worth reading.
Try 50,000 km plus long
The center of mass of the entire cable / terminus /counterweight system is in a geosynchronous orbit,which has to be 42245 km from the earth.
The actual counterweight itself is further out,at a distance that is dependent on what size asteroid that can be captured and manoeuvred into orbit
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