Obama cancled the space program.

[SupremeCommander]

If you want to be technical the best place for it is on the North of South Pole thus adverting collision with anything man made. All it'd be doing is spinning in a circle and not being swung around. Plus you're only saying that because you live there, has no real value being there at all, especially that its Asia and no god damn Astronauts.

More fool you. It would spin and cause unnecessary shear stress on the cable (Its enormously thick!) due to the Earth's wobble.
Plus you don't get the huge boost the Earth's rotation provides.

Besides, that's no good as things would have to be shipped up there, to the middle of nowhere. Its utterly impractical.

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[SupremeCommander]

If you want to be technical the best place for it is on the North of South Pole thus adverting collision with anything man made. All it'd be doing is spinning in a circle and not being swung around. Plus you're only saying that because you live there, has no real value being there at all, especially that its Asia and no god damn Astronauts.

And, technically, Japan is designing theirs with impact resistance in mind.

[LegendZ]

If you want to be technical the best place for it is on the North of South Pole thus adverting collision with anything man made. All it'd be doing is spinning in a circle and not being swung around. Plus you're only saying that because you live there, has no real value being there at all, especially that its Asia and no god damn Astronauts.

What?
No, thats not my intention.
Someone pointed out the best place for placing the elevator would be somewhere in the equator.
So why not in the Philippines.
And, also, I quite hate it here aside from slow internet its very warm unlike Belgium in merelbeke or canada :S

[Menen]

Space elevator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKKy33rb0U&feature=player_embedded

 Lol, inb4HaloSpaceElevator

It will be hit with a space rock, i swear.

[LTvic]

He would rather watch basket ball :D

[SupremeCommander]

It will be hit with a space rock, i swear.

And, technically, Japan is designing theirs with impact resistance in mind.

READING. IS GOOD FOR YOU.

What?
No, thats not my intention.
Someone pointed out the best place for placing the elevator would be somewhere in the equator.
So why not in the Philippines.
And, also, I quite hate it here aside from slow internet its very warm unlike Belgium in merelbeke or canada :S

Well, it has to be somewhere Japan owns.
I don't the Phillipino Japanese Consulate is big enough for this.

[Inv3rted]

In that case I don't see Amerika get out of recession any time soon.

America is already out of recession.

Japan is hypercompetitive and supercapitalistic. You do not want to live there.

Asia is not 20 years ahead of the United States.

[SupremeCommander]

America is already out of recession.

Japan is hypercompetitive and supercapitalistic. You do not want to live there.

Asia is not 20 years ahead of the United States.

They will be if they get the elevator done.
Would you rather pay upwards of $1200 per kilo of shipping to space? Or under $100?

It will dominate the market.

[Tom Gunn]

They better give dem space elevators some good music.

[Inv3rted]

You're an idiot if you think they can make a space elevator already.

Carbon nanotubes have just been synthesized, and they're the only material strong enough to reach into space vertically. They're too expensive to mass produce.

[Rekuddo]

The germans actually sent a rocket with a man inside barely scraping space, then the first man in space was a russian cosmonaught by the name of Yuri. then the US sent the first man on the moon after countless failures and they softened the cold war by honoring all the fallen cosmonaughts who had fallen in attempt to get to the moon.theres a fun fact about the national socialist space program and theres a movie about it which was posted on the forums a few months ago.

[Rughugger]

You're an idiot if you think they can make a space elevator already.

Carbon nanotubes have just been synthesized, and they're the only material strong enough to reach into space vertically. They're too expensive to mass produce.

I dunno them Japanese sure seem to be able to come up with some pretty impressive stuff. Fully functional android love toys and such.

[Inv3rted]

Yuri

[SupremeCommander]

You're an idiot if you think they can make a space elevator already.

Carbon nanotubes have just been synthesized, and they're the only material strong enough to reach into space vertically. They're too expensive to mass produce.

You're an idiot if you think they can't.

They devoted billions to its construction. You don't devote that to /construction/ unless stuff is happening.

[Inv3rted]

You're an idiot if you think they can't.

They devoted billions to its construction. You don't devote that to /construction/ unless stuff is happening.

lol wow

You can at least think before you post a response. They are funding research into technologies to make it possible.