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Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:

[with nanotechnology]

I suspect they'll be rare. Very rare.

 

how is molecular-level re-assignment "transmutation of matter"?

You'd need a femtomachine to do that.

 

good call.

 

<8-year-old insistent mode>

where does the milk go?

 

<fx: patiently explains>

if you re-read, the SF dream Champ mentioned don't include no steekin'
milk.

 

what a swizz!

 

Into the pepper sauce for the steak.

 

Something's always puzzled me when I come across these things in books,
where they are described as having to be built on the equator. Why?

 

So the centripetal acceleration is at right angles to the point of anchor in
both longitude and latitude making the shortest tether line

 

The Earth rotates. Imagine one built at the South Pole: would it stand up
straight, or whirl around perpendicular to the axis of rotation?

 

that's the bit that's nearest to space.

Seriously (though the above is true), simple mechanics mean it needs
to be as near to the equator as possible. Imagine a spinning sphere
with a couple of weighted strings, one attached to it's equator, and
one not - which direction to the strings point?

 

Because then the top of the elevator is in geostationary orbit and
maintains a fixed position.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary

Reasons why here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator

 

Can we imagine a stripper with weighted nipple-tassles instead?

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Orbital mechanics. Geostationary orbits are over the equator (or within
a band covering the equator and the area either side).

Phil

 

aaaaa

we're all going to be flung off into space!

 

knock yourself out.

 

<imagines>

That's better. Fun, this science stuff, innit.

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Not if you're at one of the poles!

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Mark Olson

Fucking Poles, coming over here taking our angular momentum.

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because, as per platy, ben, Phil and my explanation, it's blindingly
fucking obvious if you just think about it for a moment.