did you know this ?????

Question

What if there were an elevator that stretched from Earth's surface up and through the atmosphere??
The elevator would end 66,000 miles above earth,scientists are studying how to build a structure like this?
did you know that??? that would be so cool.

Answer 1

No, i didn't. Thanks for telling me this, that would be so kewl. i mean 66,000 miles above Earth is amazing. I learned something today. Lol!!! Thanks for telling me this.
Apreciate it alot.

Answer 2

I've read about it and from what I understand it would take days and might be pretty claustrophobic journey. I really believe it's beyond our current technology but who knows what the future will bring. The creation of a space elevator will depend on development of an extremely strong filament of some type that is thousands of miles long. I've read that they are even studying why a spiders web is so strong compared to it weight in connection with research into space elevators. I think it will be many many decades before we see anything like it.

Answer 3

You all have never heard of the space elevator? No one reads Discover magazine? Been talking about it for years. The cable would weigh over a billion tons. Someone said it would be paper thin and be a foot wide...how does that work? Hoe can it be both? Think if that thing crashed? It would wrap around the earth 2 and half times! THAT might be the end of the world...but certainly no pole shift.

Answer 4

I have first heard of the space elevator in an Arthur C Clarke book, back in the 1960s. The centre of gravity must be placed on a geostationary orbit (35,786 km), meaning that part of the elevator could go beyond that.

Anything that is on the elevator and beyond the geotationary orbit is going too fast to remain on that orbit.

Answer 5

Where would they get 66,000 miles of material to build it? By the time it was built there wouldn`t be a planet Earth left. We`d of used up the whole place on the staircase!!!

Answer 6

Just because somebody dreamed this contraption doesn't mean it is possible or it will be actually built. Consider this, 66,00 miles of cable is an awful amount of mass to be lifted to space. How do they plan to unwind this from space? or unwind it from the ground to space? Does any of you have considered what the wind is going to do to this cable?

Now, what is going to hold this in orbit? As you lift a heavy object it will actually pull what ever is up there down! If you are counting in the centrifugal force, consider the mass necessary to allow any useful weight lifting to low orbit. The tensile stress on this cable will be something undreamed of.

Wake up! Let use our intellect for something more constructive!

Answer 7

Hi. There are actually several ways to accomplish a 'Space Elevator', with a tether being one of them. The tether would have to be VERY strong and would probably be made of carbon nanotube ribbons bound together. But other methods also exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator

Answer 8

This elevator will ride a tether as thin as a piece of paper and about a foot wide. Consider that when you decide if you'd want to ride. lol

Answer 9

I understand that it probably won't be used on Earth. The first one would be constructed for use on Mars. It has less gravity so it won't have to be as long.
It's a long way off before it becomes reality.
But I think it's awesome!!

Answer 10

I think I had a friend write some kind of paper on this topic for a class once. Sounds interesting.