if you put $5 trillion of solar panels into space, you get your $5 trillion back by the end of year two and a $5 trillion income stream each year thereafter. https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/5woi4e/space_elevator_answer_compile/?solution=eaecc9b72cf3d4fdeaecc9b72cf3d4fd&js_challenge=1&token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da586175ff988dadbb80f30a879bd9c87b021a
>>533485781all this shit now has the stink of an jeet scam
The annual maintenance costs would be nuts.
>>533485781>zero taxes/debt in a decadeOy vey, not on my watch.
Prepare for your thread to be swarmed by >space is fake>earth is flat>nukes aren't real>lizard peopleagents pretending to be schizos and well-poisoning as usual.
God I miss Space Elevator threads. The one glimmer of optimism on /pol/ in the last decade years.
>>533486486We've had one for decades, it's in Antarctica. Connects to the moon base.
>>533485781there are like a million reasons for why this wouldnt work.
Have you ever done the math on this?Can't do it for earth because no known material has the strength for a surface teather and the speed require would burn up any tether reaching into the atmosphere. It's mathematically possible on Mars. Mars could refine and manufacture and then fling the products at earth. >>533486721won't know what we don't know until we try.
>>533486962Came to say this.
>>533486962What speed do you think would burn it up...
>>533485781The glowies who know how relatively simple antigravity tech is must get a kick out of these threads.
>>533486962>won't know what we already know plenty of reasons for why not to do this and why its impossible to construct but there are other problems too, like the ownership, who owns the thing? whos responsible for it and who pays the insurance?also other countries wouldnt be happy about it and maybe they would build competing structures. what if the chinese space elevator crashes on yours?
>>533485781If it was such a good idea they would have done it in the '60s when they walked on the moon
>>533487096problem is that even if this shit was real its still way too slow to get anywhere.
>>533486541Lol it has to be on the equator and the moon is always moving
>>533486962>the speed require would burn up any tether reaching into the atmosphere.What the fuck are you talking about? The difference between the motion of the atmosphere and the motion of the surface of the Earth is negligible outside of like jet streams and shit.
>>533486486The newfags will never know, those futurism threads were good for the soul which is why they had to be destroyed.
>>533487294On flat Earth or round earth?
>>533487172>still way too slow to get anywhere.It's all relative (pun absolutely intended).IF you had propulsion system of constant 1G acceleration (9.8m/s^2), it would only take ~2 years to reach 90% of the speed of light. ~1.4 years for the people on the ship due to relativistic effects. They would have travelled about 1.25 light years and still only be 1/3 of the way to the nearest star.However, if you continued to accelerate, you would never be able to reach 1.0c, but the relativistic effects would continue to compound as you got closer and closer to it.It would only take a few decades, less than a full lifetime, for the passengers on the ship to reach what is now the furthest extent of the observable universe. You would never actually be able to reach the edge of the observable universe, because the universe itself is expanding faster than the speed of light (this is fine, nothing breaks because it's space-time expanding).The journey would take millions of years from the POV of someone who stayed behind on Earth, but if you are on a one-way colony ship, does it really matter?
>>533487905you could have just said "yes its impossible and useless shit even if it works".
>>533485839>the stink of an jew scamjust like fucking wind turbines and goddamn solar panel
