All ukrm-ers are now US criminals - official

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

Because we ah gonna have the base in thuh Yoonahted States of AMERICUH
you pussy! We ain't havin' no stinkin' COMMIE TERRIST havin' control of
owah space-elevatAH! No Sirree! <Ptui> An' we'll have thuh valoo of that
thur "pi" set to THREE-point-OH exactly, to make it easier tuh DO!

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

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....and we're going to encase it in concrete to protect it from tourists
crashing airplanes into it - all the way up!

 

So you could walk up it?

 

err, yes, but the general idea is not to have it curved.

 

go and stand in the corner with Pip.

 

ITYM "axis"

I can't remember whether anyone has previously mentioned this explicitly,
but the whole system is in geostationary orbit - the counterweight is there
to ensure that the centre of mass of the system is at the correct altitude
for a geostationary orbit.

A geostationary orbit has to be over the equator. If you put the it in any
other plane, at the same altitude and therefore with the same orbital
period, the satellite (or elevator in this case) will wander to the north
and south.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Jérémy

Couldn't you just put the base station on wheels? You could even use it
as a transport or power generation system.

Genius!


--
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You're not getting the "in tension" thing here, are you?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

OK! OK! New idea! On rails, with the wheels *under the rails*.

I am COOKING!

--
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Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

Or the fact that the space end is in a (relatively) fixed position.

Phil.

 

I'd be fun to watch you try. Well, actually it would be utterly tedious,
but flicking through your blog might be mildly amusing...

Day 3: 97 km. God, this is tedious. Seems to go on for ever.

Day 11: 302 km. Air much thinner. Definitely getting steeper. Very cold
now.

Day 15: 359 km. bleedng frm ears nd nse Cnt remebre why im here V steep

 

No, you're barking.

The Equator is about 40,000 km long. Only about 6,000 km of that is land,
and it's mostly rainforest, mountains, deserts, jungles etc.

You want a boat.

 

Feersum!

 

Fairly impossible for it not to be, IWHT

 

Simian banged the rocks together and said:

So its the shortest length?

 

Simian banged the rocks together and said:

Which way does it taper? And why?

<guesses> Near the earth is the tension through the cable counteracted
to an extent by gravity and so it can be thinner at the earth end?