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Re: Check this out
Posted By: Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) <sumpca@yahoo.com>	Date: 5/15/06 9:06 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Check this out (KnightPremier) : Nice find on the animations! However, I think the example we should look at : are that of the elevator breaking around 3/4 the way up or even at the : counter-weight. The explosion was at ground level, plus a few kilometers altitude. That's not going to cut the tether 40,000 or 60,000 kilometers away... that's going to cut it at ground level. Yes, there'd be local splintering and shattering, but if it could propagate that far up the tether I doubt even the most desperate UNSC staffers would've approved their construction. : The reason I'd say this is that the 'counter-weight' isnt : going to be just a huge block of depleted uranium, its going to be a : spacestation. The station could be designed to sever itself from the : tether if there were ever any signs of trouble, so that it could manuver : itself into a chosen orbit without the forces of the free tether acting : upon it. Unlikely, as without the counterweight the tether will collapse and wind itself around the Earth; see the animation for that at the linked page. If the station was to be detachable, then it'd have to lift from the ground end and haul the whole tether up to avoid giving the planet a lick of the lash. (Arr...) I should also point out that the counterweight originally considered in "beanstalk" (as it was termed at the time) design was an asteroid. We're not talking sinker weights here, but literally astronomical masses. Hmm... Phobos'd be about right. *grin* In those designs, the real functioning heart of the station was at geostationary orbit (36,000km). Of course, this obviously isn't the case for Halo 2's MAC platforms; hmm... now I'm thinking we need to know how far up those platforms are. Man, now I've gotta get the calipers out and take a stroll outside the Cairo to do some good ol' trig... -- Steve'll have to put the "geo" back in "geometry".

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Message Index

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.