Bye bye Space Elevator

orbital speed?

why?

your floating up there, what else do you want? To move about doesnt require getting to 17,000 mph...unless you want to circle the globe real fast...

from that platform you then go away as you wish... small amount of thrust continuously, no big bang needed.

Granted, you wont get to this point in under 10 minutes like present rockets, but what's the hurry? A space elevator won't do it that fast either...

:-))
From: Robert
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 1:33 PM
Subject: [spacesettlers] Re: Bye bye Space Elevator

let me ask you t his. how does the first balloon get to orbital speed
(about 5 miles a second). if it does not, how does the transfer
station stay in orbit.

just getting to the correct altitude does not take care of the problem.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
>
> whats wrong with the two stage balloon concept? one that gets you
to around 140,000 feet and the next that goes higher... once up
there , air resistence is low and rocketing to high earth orbit should
be easy... ??
>