Re: Ignorance
- From: nmm1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Nick Maclaren)
- Date: 29 Oct 2005 09:27:21 GMT
In article <sq05m15uufohu7cdhvnprbd41gua6c4f4o@xxxxxxx>,
Gary Woods <garyusenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>"JennyC" <JennyC.squirrel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Or the "chicken wire seed" and "sky hooks"
>
>They're what you use to hang up the bucket of prop wash.
I suggest looking them up on the Net :-)
It is pretty unlikely that it will be possible to build a sky hook
on the earth in the forseeable future, but people are doing serious
calculations on how it could be done and what it would cost. The
recent discovery of buckytubes means that it is at least theoretically
possible for a feasible amount of resources. Kevlar is good enough
for the moon, or even Mars, but doesn't really cut the mustard for
earth.
Of course, getting a suitable carbonaceous chondrite into place,
processing it into buckytubes and spinning the line is a little
beyond current engineering!
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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