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   Tog said, 5 months ago

   They were called space hoppers here and great fun they were too.
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   RipleyKGarfield said, 5 months ago

   Message in a bottle…Fan mail from some flounder?!?
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   Grim Reaper said, 5 months ago

   The message said one extra pint please
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   SeaFox10 said, 5 months ago

   Won’t work! Ever hear of “Solar Wind”!?
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   shibler2 said, 5 months ago

   We called them Hippity Hops here
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   Michyle Glen said, 5 months ago

   Space Elevators have been planned for Years, They need something stronger than steel cable to create it.
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   Blee Boow said, 5 months ago

   so in other words, you earthlings are building your planet a baseball bat? might come in handy for meteors & asteroids!
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   htownkev said, 5 months ago

   @Blee Boow

   just wonderin do you guys crack your knuckles like us humans?
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   Radish said, 5 months ago

   Made out of carbon nano fibers the elevator could lift a rocket into space so it doesn’t need all the fuel to break earths gravity.
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    simpsonfan2 said, 5 months ago

    Just as long as it doesn’t get stuck between the 3,478th and 3,479th floor.

    And the Muzak is playing ABBA.
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    Datook said, 5 months ago

    In 1784 Chunosuke Matsuyama sent a message detailing his and 43 shipmates’ shipwrecking in a bottle that washed ashore and was found by a Japanese seaweed collector in 1935, in the village of Hiraturemura, the birthplace of Chunosuke Matsuyama.
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    chuckx777 said, 5 months ago

    I’m a bit concerned about that space elevator that, you get a little too much weight in there, the elevator cab will stay in place and pull the space station down to earth!
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

    The idea for a Space Elevator has been bouncing around in SiFi for some time. But now the technology has been catching up to the idea. Once scientists were able to extrude out carbon nanotubes to any length the time had come. Even so actual construction could take decades. They may start in 2020 but it could take 30 years to complete it.
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    goalgo said, 5 months ago

    is that the correct scale? the cable would have to be 40 000 miles long.
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    squirrelchaser said, 5 months ago

    They would put the ‘space’ end in geostationary orbit at the equator, I believe the length of the carbon nanotubes would be about 60,000 miles, and it would be flexible enough to withstand wind (rotational speed is irrelevant since it will be in geostationary orbit.) Been a while since I read about it, but it sound promising though.
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