User Login
(If you have an On Orbit Mercury Social Space News account use the same username and password when login in to On Orbit. There is no need to register again.)
Control Panel
(If you have an On Orbit Mercury Social Space News account use the same username and password when login in to On Orbit. There is no need to register again.)
The most daunting roadblock
The most daunting roadblock to building an se right now is creating a material with the strength to support the space elevator.
the material
Build the nano fibers into circles and weave them together?
The nanotubes resemble the childs toy ' chineese finger puzzels , or finger traps'. Will the molecules function the same way, and can they be aranged to grip one another? This would forn a very long strand.
Alan Gregorich
alan_gregorich@yahoo.com
Here's a document about
Here's a document about space elevators. http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~cdhall/courses/aoe4065/NASADesignSPs/cp210429.pdf
It covers the whole range of the topic and is a great overview of ideas. Enjoy!
------------------
Jonathan Sharma
Space Elevator sites
There are technical challenges that need to be solved before a space elevator can be built but people are working on these issues.
You can get more information from the following sites:
Space Elevator Reference
http://www.spaceelevator.com
Spaceward Foundation
http://www.spaceward.org
The Space Elevator Blog
http://www.spaceelevatorblog.com
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
--
Marc Boucher, Co-Founder and Chief Architect
SpaceRef Interactive Inc.