Space Elevator (The Epic Tower) (Page 5)

Corwin: All you're saving is a little bit of rocket fuel... hardly worth building a 60 mile high tower.

You would STILL have to propel your payload to 17,500 mph regardless of whether you're 60 miles up or not... that's where most of the rocket fuel is spent.

Zereous Excentris: Lets see how do I Eplain this one

Corwin: You're fighting Gravity regardless... all your 60 mile tower is saving you is a bit of wind resistance, which is next to nothing once you're at about 20 miles... never mind 60.

Zereous Excentris: Allright give me a second here let me explain

Zereous Excentris: I am going to Reformulate my space elevator supported by magnetic structuring into a ROD that reaches space

Zereous Excentris: and the magnets just hold the rod straight up

Corwin: What holds the magnets up?

Zereous Excentris: I am going to Reformulate my space elevator supported by magnetic structuring into a ROD that reaches space and the magnets just hold the rod straight up

Zereous Excentris: the magnets hold the magnets up by electromagnetism and the rod keeps them center

Corwin: Back up a bit... I still don't understand what the point is of a 60 mile high tower.

Arthur C. Clarke's Space Elevator idea was 22,236 miles up... that way the very top of the tower would be in geostationary orbit and payloads could simply be pushed into space.

Zereous Excentris: I Thought Earths Atmosphere as 60 Miles thick..

Zereous Excentris: """payloads could simply be pushed into space""" Holy Crap... Just.. Pushed into space

Zereous Excentris: I dont care how high the tower is as long as payloads could simply be pushed into space

Corwin: 60 miles will get you in pretty much a vacuum... but that doesn't make you weightless.

Only the orbital velocity of 17,500 mph can do that.

Zereous Excentris: its a rod with magnets that hold it up so it does not bend down and stuff

Corwin: The traditional Space Elevator concepts require a height of 22,226 miles.

I seriously doubt that that will ever happen. Even if you had the most lightweight materials imaginable, the base of the tower would need to be the area of Utah to support that kind of weight at the base.
That's a tower that reaches 1/10 of the way to the Moon.

I think it would be simpler just to launch payloads from the ground.

Zereous Excentris: ahh now corvin corvin corvin..
It would be a rod with magnetic structuring.. I thought You Understood magnetic Structuring

Zereous Excentris: a rod with magnetic structuring..
The rod stays straight

Zereous Excentris: try to fix the flaws inside of your mind as you display the flaw to me.. to try and fix it to work inside of your mind aswell.. i will help you understand

Corwin:

Zereous Excentris: the magnets are the keeeeeeey

Zereous Excentris: ^.^

Zereous Excentris: Next corvin is getting a starship from our solar system to alpha centenarian