Did you know it is possible to build a space elevator today?
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Space Elevator General is about learning the science and engineering behind the concept (ask and ye shall receive), the benefits it will provide to mankind (for example, no more need for taxes), the political realignments implied by such a project (a solar dollar rather than a petrodollar obviates the need for wars in the middle east), etc.
>inb4 thread spirals out of control with gay porn space elevator pill memes.
the space elevator would fall onto space and cut the pkanet in half, this is a dumb idea
this could be a good general until it gets flooded with planet X thoerists and warp drive neckbeards
we don't need a space elevator, helicopters fly more than high enough
This is worse than those flat earth threads.
Both are stupid, but this one could cost me money.
Flat earth type stuff is CIA directed disinformation. Since learning science and engineering is part of /SEG/, it can serve (partly) as a forum for debunking such nonsense and thereby undermining the power of the CIA.
That is part of the purpose of /SEG/ - with a robust, profitable infrastructure program there is no longer any need or justification for many black programs of the CIA like drug running.
As it stands now, the federal reserve issues low interest loans to banks who then turn around and issue the money to you at higher rates. The federal reserve is costing you money already.
Instead of such nonsense, we can use the federal reserve to fund infrastructure bonds at 0% for the space elevator. As a profitable enterprise, it would quickly generate a positive cash flow for the government and thereby reduce their ability to justify taxes on you.
In short, the space elevator puts money in your pocket rather than taking money out.
The issue I can already see with this (reading through, haven't finished) is that this has a big disadvantage to a conventional space elevator - namely, you aren't able to gain enough speed from rising up the elevator, since you only get up to LEO and you would need to get up to GEO (which this doesn't) for the velocity from the movement of the planet to be enough to put you in orbit.
Then again, that's a long term issue with the classic space elevator come to think of it - by sliding up and down the space elevator you are slowing the elevator down, curbing it backwards from the rotation of the planet; over time this could lead to structural collapse unless you use fuel to move it (which could be sort of feasible if you also use the elevator to move the fuel around, though I'm not sure about how efficient that is).
I hope it does, OP is a /sci/ reject who makes this thread at least every week.