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| Re: Wouldn't it really fall west? | |
| Posted By: Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) <sumpca@yahoo.com> | Date: 5/15/06 8:10 a.m. |
In Response To: Wouldn't it really fall west? (Dry Ice) : If the elevator broke apart the pieces would be travelling at the same RPM as
: If it is in fact different please explain why so I can understand. Most of the pieces won't lose their momentum, at least not as you mean it, because it's mostly outside our atmosphere. The space elevator really isn't a building; it's a satellite in geosynchronous orbit, with a long cable that reaches down and touches the Earth's surface (36,000km "down") and up into space (another 36,000km to act as a balance, unless there's a big counterweight to shorten that length). The Earth's atmosphere is really only 100km thick. Also, if the break occurs near the base of the tower (as shown in the end cinematic for Metropolis) the upper part of the elevator actually gets thrown up into space by the reaction. If you haven't already, take a look at the web page I linked to in this post and watch the first animation to see what it'd look like. -- Steve's thinking is that the debris in the trailer is "cast off" from the tether's whip-lash; chunks of the ground-side stabilisation rings thrown there in reaction to the tether's sudden move eastward. | |
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| Significance of Forerunner location in H3 Trailer | BeastIce | 5/14/06 12:05 p.m. |
| Re: Significance of Forerunner location in H3 Trai | LostRock11 | 5/14/06 12:53 p.m. |
| Re: Significance of Forerunner location in H3 Trai | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 5/14/06 2:29 p.m. |
| Re: Significance of Forerunner location in H3 Trai | LostRock11 | 5/14/06 3:51 p.m. |
| Re: Significance of Forerunner location in H3 Trai | silentsailor | 5/14/06 2:02 p.m. |
| Re: Significance of Forerunner location in H3 Trai | Dundradal | 5/14/06 5:12 p.m. |
| Re: Significance of Forerunner location in H3 Trai | Ape Man | 5/14/06 7:31 p.m. |
| Where've you been, man???? | UrsusArctos | 5/14/06 7:50 p.m. |
| Check this out | Quantum | 5/14/06 8:00 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | Ape Man | 5/14/06 8:19 p.m. |
| front-paged *NM* | Miguel Chavez | 5/14/06 8:48 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | Shadowsniper689 | 5/14/06 9:01 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | gunluva | 5/14/06 9:07 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | njdshadow | 5/14/06 9:13 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | Quantum | 5/14/06 9:21 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | UrsusArctos | 5/14/06 9:54 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | fludblud | 5/15/06 8:06 a.m. |
| Re: Check this out | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 5/15/06 7:28 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | Quantum | 5/14/06 9:15 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) | 5/14/06 10:00 p.m. |
| D'oh! For "strait" read "estuary". *NM* | Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) | 5/14/06 10:24 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | Ape Man | 5/15/06 11:18 a.m. |
| Re: Check this out | JLChief | 5/14/06 9:07 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | Masta Chef | 5/14/06 10:01 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | SaS | 5/14/06 10:07 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | JLChief | 5/15/06 1:42 a.m. |
| Re: Check this out | Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) | 5/14/06 10:16 p.m. |
| that's pretty amazing *NM* | Miguel Chavez | 5/14/06 10:25 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | KnightPremier | 5/15/06 12:03 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) | 5/15/06 9:06 p.m. |
| Re: Check this out | KnightPremier | 5/16/06 4:04 a.m. |
| Re: Check this out | MarkHawk | 5/15/06 6:11 a.m. |
| Wouldn't it really fall west? | Dry Ice | 5/15/06 7:08 a.m. |
| Re: Wouldn't it really fall west? | Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) | 5/15/06 8:10 a.m. |
| Re: Wouldn't it really fall west? | Dry Ice | 5/15/06 9:53 a.m. |
| Or maybe only 20min to fall 30 miles *NM* | Dry Ice | 5/15/06 10:32 a.m. |
| Regardless | Miguel Chavez | 5/15/06 12:45 p.m. |
| Re: Wouldn't it really fall west? | Ape Man | 5/15/06 11:06 a.m. |
| Re: Wouldn't it really fall west? | UrsusArctos | 5/15/06 7:01 p.m. |
| Re: Significance of Forerunner location in H3 Trai | KnightPremier | 5/15/06 4:23 a.m. |
| Re: Significance of Forerunner location in H3 Trai | Exodus7 | 5/15/06 4:51 a.m. |
| Re: Significance of Forerunner location in H3 Trai | Exodus7 | 5/15/06 1:06 p.m. |
| Re: Significance of Forerunner location in H3 Trai | sorahn | 5/15/06 3:13 p.m. |
| Re: Significance of Forerunner location in H3 Trai | KnightPremier | 5/16/06 4:17 a.m. |
| Voi or New Mombasa? | yakaman | 5/15/06 1:45 p.m. |
| Ah, I understand now. Narc's recap is teh bomb. *NM* | yakaman | 5/15/06 4:11 p.m. |
| Re: Voi or New Mombasa? | Exodus7 | 5/15/06 4:37 p.m. |
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