Reply With QuoteIt reminds me of SPACE:1999
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It reminds me of SPACE:1999
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
I think they vastly understate the cost of building such a thing.
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And you've never flown to China, 2 hours versus 14 hours, sweet. (LA to Shanghai)
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Yeah, have fun building a bridge across the Pacific Ocean. The water's a little deep.
I come from the land of the ice and snow
From the rust belt where industry won't go
Bridging the Bering is certainly possible (if not politically) and would serve most all routes better anyways.Originally Posted by regexcellent
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The Bering Strait is probably bridgeable with current technology but there are two major obstacles: the remoteness of the coast on the Russian side (there are no highways for over a thousand miles) and the potential for ice and cold weather damage to the bridge.
EDIT: replaced "there are highways" with "there are no highways"
Last edited by regexcellent; April 19, 2012 at 12:39.
I come from the land of the ice and snow
From the rust belt where industry won't go
Oh, one more thing: Air travel requires fairly little infrastructure because all you need is a strip of land 8,000-10,000 feet long in every major city and 6,000 feet long in minor ones, plus a bunch of airplanes. Once those are built the planes can go between any two strips of land. Not so for rail travel. Hence rail is actually really expensive except in densely populated areas where there are guaranteed to be lots of passengers.
I come from the land of the ice and snow
From the rust belt where industry won't go
Evacuating the tube is bloody expensive. Drilling through the mantle to build a straight tube is currently impossible.
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...and then there's the whole "ring of fire" thing.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
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We'll get on that as soon as we complete the space elevator.
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We've got both kinds
And then as a third getting Britsih Railways to run cheaply, smoothly and effective
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
Now you're just fantisizing.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
I can solve your scheduling dilemma... evacuated tube space elevator. Not only do you kill two birds with one stone, but you don't even have to seal one end of the tube to keep it evacuated!
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