Why build the Orbital Ring? It would cut our costs of going to orbit from about $2000/kg to about $1/kg. There are individual asteroids that have tens of trillions of dollars in materials on them that could be mined. One mission could easily pay for the cost of building the Orbital Ring.
We could then deploy solar power satellites in orbit above cloud cover and return the power back to the surface with near zero loss by running power transmission cables down the elevator, and sell the power at a profit.
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.
My boy Kaiba had this shit figured out in the 90's.
Daniel Edwards
Numbers confirm
Nathan Clark
Paul Birch had it figured out in the 1980s.
Tyler Green
A truly ascended thread.
Jayden Lewis
IM UNIRONICALLY READY
James Turner
Dank.
Carter Walker
If he wants to build a space elevator, I'll volunteer every waking hour for the next 4 years. And blow him.
Blake Flores
This is your body on space elevators
Adam Nguyen
We got some number magic going on here.
Levi Torres
Every damn time we try to talk about space elevators.
Every. Damn. Time.
Adam Nelson
Kek will that the Space Elevator be built.
Joshua Price
SPACE ELEVATORS ARE NAZBOL
Kayden Gonzalez
All political parties unite behind the Space Elevator Party.
Jaxson Adams
THAS RIIIIIIIIIITE
Hudson Ortiz
It's a landslide. Everyone is joining. Nazis. Black Israelites. Ancaps. Noam Chomsky. It's on.
Easton Flores
SIEG HEIL, SPACE ELEVATORS
Nathan Turner
Greens, too. But where are the Commies?
Tyler Young
One moment, let me find them
Henry Lopez
...
Kevin Hall
Space Elevator Will Not Divide US
Dominic Bennett
...
William Peterson
Dub sevens... but...
Fuck these degenerates. Interracial gays are the only people we will exclude from the Space Elevator Party.
Leo Wood
It will unite us. To hang the bankers. And build a new, free, prosperous future.
Parker Sullivan
waste of good digits, race mixing faggot >wait >tfw even race mixing fags are on board with the elevator
Nicholas Garcia
Who the fuck is the guy on the left?
Who cares, he wants the Space Elevator. We'll allow it.
Connor Parker
GAS THE (((BANKERS))), BUILD THE ELEVATOR
Justin Collins
WHY IS THIS DEGENERACY ON HERE?
Brandon Reyes
All he has to do is hire Willy Wonka, and boom...space elevator. There really is no reason not to do it.
Ian Mitchell
"I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty."
Gavin Turner
Fine, I made a meme of my own >tfw space elevator is the first thing that causes you to make any OC
The point isn't docking things; the point is being able to get things out into space cheaply. You can also use it for cheap transport of materials, cheaper than shipping is as of right now.
Lincoln Barnes
>Still doesn't change the fact that gravity isn't that much weaker in low Earth orbit.
It is somewhat weaker. And you're out of the atmosphere, which is a big part of the difficulty in getting off the planet.
>You wouldn't be able to dock anything.
What?
Julian Perez
And then we can fucking mine asteroids and do cool shit for way cheaper and eventually get off this gay earth
Benjamin Rogers
Memes will build steel beams (tethers).
Oliver Gonzalez
>gay earth
Earth is heteronormative. It's the bankers that run things that are homos.
Adrian Williams
So then you build the worlds most expensive attic?
Anything trying to dock would have to slow down too much and would just fall back to Earth. You could maybe launch stuff from it but it would still be a big rocket needed to accelerate to a velocity fast enough to escape being sucked back into the atmosphere.
Grayson Phillips
>Anything trying to dock would have to slow down too much and would just fall back to Earth.
What in the world are you talking about? Of course you can stop at the top of a fixed structure without falling back down to earth.
>You could maybe launch stuff from it but it would still be a big rocket needed to accelerate to a velocity fast enough to escape being sucked back into the atmosphere.
You mean a very small rocket, since you're already outside the atmosphere. And the Orbital Ring itself could eventually be used as a sort of launch loop.
Christian Perez
Colonizing a new planet would be pretty based though
James Walker
Pretty profitable, too. Access to materials we don't have very much of here.
Blake Garcia
That is in fact the idea
Ryan Jones
At 100miles above the surface of the Earth, low Earth orbit, gravity is still above 9m/s^2. To escape the gravitational pull you have to get going somewhere around at a velocity of 10-11km/s and reach that speed before it falls back into the atmosphere which will require a tremendous amount of acceleration.
Austin Cox
Tell me more about this space elevator and might you have a spot of guacamole? I've a chip but no dip.
Tyler Young
Yeah, you would use a rocket from there, with a drastic reduction in the amount of energy needed compared to taking off from the surface.
