The problem is the cost (was Designing SPS to accommodate tidal forces) Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: The problem is the cost (was Designing SPS to accommodate tidal forces)
--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "hitssquad" wrote:
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> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com 13240, "brooksn" wrote:
> > --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "hitssquad" wrote:
> > > --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "brooksn" wrote:
> > > > > > --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "hitssquad" wrote:
> > You [...] argue against space settlement.
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> No. Please quote me. Here's one:
> "--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Victor Smith" wrote:
> > then you should certainly be working hard to promote space settlement
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> By lying to people by spinning a tale about a supposed imminent depletion of resources on Earth? ...Or by telling them the truth -- that resources are not a reason to colonize beyond Earth, but that there might be other reasons for such colonization?"
> > Put a weight, made from the slag of the asteriodal material used to make the SPS, toward the Earth so that the heaviest part of the structure will be closer to Earth.
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> Yes. I have described that many times. What would result wouldn't be the constantly-sun-facing SPS described by many SPS advocates. Are you actually now advocating a GEO SPS that rotates on its axis in synchronization with the earth? If so, you're throwing the old standard proposal under the bus. Yes?
No, just spin the panels around an axis allowing the weighted side to point to Earth. I'm advocating space settlement, specifically the capturing of small asteroids to be brought into Earth/moon orbit for use in science, expanding settlements, and mining. If SPS, a lunar elevator, an Earth elevator, an interstellar spaceship, or any other project involving people leaving Earth for space can be supported with that I'm all for it.
Brooks