Red Pill 101

Is it possible to build a space elevator today?

Yes:

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maybe, but why would you. imagine how horrible it would be to maintain,let alone build

The key idea is the Orbital Ring version of the space elevator, not the geosynchronous tether concept you are familiar with.

See, for example, Paul Birch's writings:

orionsarm.com/fm_store/OrbitalRings-I.pdf

The orbital ring only requires tethers about 300 kilometers long which is technically feasible with common material like steel, but ridiculously straightforward with better and already available material like kevlar.

There are some important questions. First, how much would it cost to do something like this?

We need to send about 160 million kilograms of material into space (See Birch's boot strap estimates in part 2: orionsarm.com/fm_store/OrbitalRings-II.pdf)

We have rockets available at $2000/kg costs to LEO today in "mass production" mode, which is only about 10-20 launches per year. Compared with the couple thousand launches necessary for a space elevator, $2000 is an unreasonably high upper bound for launch costs.

We also need to include the cost of materials. A space elevator is about 98% steel and aluminum, 1% kevlar, and 1% other such as superconducting magnets. Most of the mass (98%) cost around $1/kg, with an average cost per kilogram of no more than about $10 per kilogram.

Summing the above up, we get about $430 billion in launch costs plus another $1-2 billion in material costs.

In other words, we can have a space elevator for less than $450 billion - significantly less than one year worth of DoD spending, one bank bailout, many times less than a variety of pointless wars, etc. This is well within our reach financially in other words.

What do we get in return for this $450 billion investment?

Virtually unlimited value. For example, with a space elevator we can reliably launch our nuclear waste into the sun. We've spent $100 billion building a waste repository in Nevada, but it was ultimately decided not to even use it. Now it costs only a dollar or two per kilogram to get rid of all of the nuclear waste in the world.

Second, we have immediate access to viable asteroid mining industry. Because the cost of delivering payloads to LEO drops to about $1/kilogram, we can not retrieve asteroids with trillions of dollars worth of minerals for mere tens millions of dollars in addition to having an easy viable way of returning those resources back to the surface.

We acquire the ability to deploy profitable solar power in orbit above cloud cover and with the ability to return said power back to the surface with near zero loss by running power transmission cables down the elevator.

Just how profitable?

With increased luminosity in space, enhanced exposure time, and the ability to deliver base loads, solar panels pay for themselves in only 1-2 years while having a 20 year life time.

In other words, if you put $5 trillion of solar panels into space, you get your $5 trillion back by the end of year two and a $5 trillion income stream each year thereafter.

In other words, the US could cut everyone's taxes, both personal and business, income, capital, death, or otherwise, all to 0%, not even cut any benefits or current spending, and pay off the national debt within a decade.

It should already be obvious that the entirety of the political debate spectrum is cointelpro.

Are taxes too high or too low? Irrelevant, we don't actually need taxes.

Is social spending bankrupting us? Irrelevant, we can retire the national debt without cutting spending all while having no tax whatsoever.

What does this have to do with taking the red pill?

We've had the technological ability to undertake such a project for decades.

That means all the squabbling you have heard your entire life, money, debt, spending, taxes, scarcity, whatever, is all bullshit. Not only is it bullshit, anyone with rudimentary knowledge of the world has known that it is all bullshit for all of this time.

In other words, once you come to understand the such a project is and has been technically feasible for decades, you have to reevaluate many things.

Why is there nothing of this in the conspiracy media? They are not really trying to expose or solve any problems. One hundred percent of it is cointelpro. From the Young Turks to Infowars or whatever, they are all completely full of shit because solutions to our problems not only exist, are easy to carry out, but this has been the case for a very long time.

i THOUGHT THE EARTH WAS FLAT... SO THIS RING THINGY WOULD NOT WORK

Fortunately, flat earth is equally as ridiculous as all alt media.

this is what HLI is talking about.

Space exploration is a meme and a (((trick))) to make America waste money on useless missions that taxpayers are funding and going into (((debt))) for.

Space exploration is pretty pointless in a way, yes.

Is there any reason to spend $100B on a manned mission to Mars? Well, there is exactly one. It is meant to capture your attention and prevent it from being directed towards fruitful endeavors.

Once we build a space elevator is a relatively straightforward task to colonize and terraform Mars though. Turning the planet into another habitable zone for mankind would be a worthwhile endeavor and is achievable with today's technology.

>build a space elevator

Not a good plan.

Thank you for your deep and thoughtful analysis, user.

>Thank you for your deep and thoughtful analysis, user.

happy to help.

how difficult would it be to defend the thing
surely it would be really easy to topple and wreck
also maintenance would be rough

1) Defense is pretty straightforward. You can position your elevators anywhere you want and orient the ring at any inclination you want. So we can run it north - south almost entirely over the Atlantic / Pacific oceans for example, far away from access by plebs. We already have robust anti-missile technology (see Israel's iron dome for example). In fact, the space elevator's defenses can be far better than any anti-missile or anti-plane technology on the ground because it has a perch from above and therefore doesn't have issues "seeing over the horizon" like ground based interceptors and associated radar units.

2) Maintenance is actually very straightforward. The orbital ring is actually a series of rings. You can have, for example, 5 rings spinning east-west and 5 rings spinning west-east all coupled together. Any two of them can be spun down (no net momentum change) for regular repairs while the system continues functioning normally. Throughput capacity can be adjusted by spinning up or spinning down the system and you can attach dozens of elevators to each ring system to create an incredibly robust system that is not susceptible to single or even several points of failure.