Comment on Space is starting to look like the better mining operation

• seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m thinking we’re going to want either really big spiders or a whole lot of goats now that we’ve spliced the spider silk genes into goats milk.

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  • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Goats! For the love of God, stay away from the spiders!

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• grahamja@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I also am under the assumption that no material exists that could be stacked tall enough to build a space elevator.

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  • seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’d want tensile strength rather than compressive. The trick is to anchor a counterweight out beyond your target distance and let it pull the weight of the cable up rather than building a tower.

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  • crystalmerchant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    stacked tall enough…? The space elevator concept is a geostationary node orbiting earth directly above a fixed point, with cables running between them. Not a gigantic skyscraper up into the sky. What am I missing?

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    • Cosmicomical@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You probably haven't read 3001: the final odissey, in any case i think most ideas of space elevators are not like a lift, they are more like skyscrapers indeed

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  • Heggico@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you build it tall enough, centrifugal force will start pulling on it. Building it that way though… But yeah. Doubt the right material exist atm.

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