a space elevator
You’d have to harness carbon nanotubes first… then deal with all the debris in LEO, then come up with an elevator that doesn’t take days to reach GEO (granted the counterweight can rest there and the cab can stop sooner).
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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
China 2060: … a space elevator
USA 2060: … still the same rail service
0x0@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
This is a joke meme that doesn’t mean anything … just like the American public transport system.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Easy, just attach a huge rocket to the bottom of the elevator, problem solved. Oh, use AI to design the rocket, make the ticketing system use block chain, and when you get to orbit, a robot remotely operated by a human on the ground (but prentends to be fully autonomous) take a picture of you and generates an NFT of it that you can purchase for 35000 USD in the gift shop.
I’ll be over here swimming in my money pool.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
i agree with your sentiment completely, just to point out a small technicality:
space elevators aren’t technically feasible. i’ve done the calculations a while ago and practically, the weight of the space elevator itself would be so much that it wouldn’t be able to carry its own weight. remember that it would essentially be a tower several hundred kilometers high. the highest buildings on earth today aren’t even a single kilometer high.