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A space elevator would be built 'about fifty years after everybody stops laughing.'
Chadwick Moore · Articleyank.info/tdfbnq
The colossal cable would be nearly invisible but reflective, like a mirror — ground-based spectators catching an occasional thin, long glint of reflected sunlight slicing down from heaven.
Chadwick Moore · Articleyank.info/tdfbnq
Rockets must be 85–95 percent propellant to escape Earth's gravity. Cargo is typically just 2–4 percent of liftoff mass. Engineers call this the 'tyranny' of the rocket equation.
Chadwick Moore · Articleyank.info/tdfbnq
It looks like we found the material. Technology doesn't go on a linear line — every once in a while somebody makes a discovery and capabilities jump from linear to really huge.
Chadwick Moore · Articleyank.info/tdfbnq
By the time a project like that starts generating cash flow for investors it could be two and a half, three decades. They're looking for a return — hopefully while they're still alive.
Chadwick Moore · Articleyank.info/tdfbnq