Re:Space Elevator
by bombcar on Monday October 20, 2025 @09:09AM
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All we have to do is make the global religion require bringing a rock to a specific location; after long enough we’ll have a mountain so high it extends out of the atmosphere!
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Re:Space Elevator
by hermitcrab on Monday October 20, 2025 @11:20AM
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To get to the Kármán line (100k) a mountain with a 60 degree slope would require a base of 115km. A cone with 115km diameter base has a volume of 3.5×10^5 km^3. Which is 3.5x10^14 m^3, which is about 10^15 kg of rock. So it is going to take you a while!
3.5x10⁵ km³ you say?
1.08321×10¹² km³ is the volume of Earth, feasibility study done! Implement!
Re:Space Elevator
by hermitcrab on Monday October 20, 2025 @03:00PM
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The molten core probably isn't going to be much use.
Surface area is 5x10^8 km^2. So it it 'only' the first ~2m of the crust (~6m if you don't count ocean).
Related and recommended: Greg Egan “Phoresis” a sci-fi novel of two twin planets in extreme proximity to each other. (I think I read it in one of his anthologies.)
This presents a considerable risk of splitting English into several languages, none of them intelligible with the others.
Re:Space Elevator
by notahacker on Monday October 20, 2025 @11:56AM
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The deity in question would also have to smite purveyors of LLM translation. This might of course not be considered a drawback...
have you ever been to Newcastle?
Aye man, wey aye, went doon there worra bairn, didn’t ah? Cannae remember much like, was only a wee nipper at the time, knaa what ah mean? Me mam an’ da took us doon the Toon when ah was nowt but a little’un, like. Divvent really remember owt aboot it proper, but aye, been the once when ah was just a littl’ bairn, me. Proper yonks ago that was, pet!
(Translation: yes, once as a kid).