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Build a Space Elevator, win a prize

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UPDATED: Monday, November 9, 2009 13:41
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Sunday, November 8, 2009 11:08 PM

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NASA offers $2 million prize for NASA to bill $2-trillion to taxslaves
www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/11/05/space.elevator/index.html

Seems to me if there's that much centripetal force, it would pull the bedrock into space. Big disaster would ensue as molten lava erupts. Lots of wailing and nashing of teeth.

Besides, hasn't NASA ever flown a kite? The line don't go straight up. And NASA want's a 25,000-mile-long cable? Remember what happened to Ben Franklin?

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Monday, November 9, 2009 2:40 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

http://www.howstuffworks.com/space-elevator.htm

Go brush up on your basic physics.

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Monday, November 9, 2009 3:25 AM

HERO

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Originally posted by piratenews:
Seems to me if there's that much centripetal force, it would pull the bedrock into space. Big disaster would ensue as molten lava erupts.

Crazytalker science.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you." "I am forced to agree with Hero here."- Chrisisall, 2009.

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Monday, November 9, 2009 1:02 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

Quote:
Originally posted by Hero:

Crazytalker science.

Because putting folks in jail for jaywalking makes you a rocket scientist?

Putting the counterweight at 62,000 miles altitude wont work, because geosynchronous orbit is 22,000 miles. So the rotation of Earth would pull it westward until it wraps around the equator. Doh!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit

Then there's the 200 mph jetstream to deal with. And the 6-million mph solar wind. No human can survive at that altitude due to nuke radiation.

All other spacecraft would be required to be shot down, to prevent impact with the cable.

At best it would be a giant lightning rod, until it got zapped with millions of volts from outer space.

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Monday, November 9, 2009 1:41 PM

KWICKO

So being the local conspiracy theorist makes YOU a rocket scientist, PN?

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