Alyx Stoklitsky

/me reinstalls SS1

detrius

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Eh, I wasn't serious. Actually, I doubt Ecuador would be a wise choice since the region is threatened by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The elevation doesn't make much of a difference anyway. It might be a good idea to place the ground station close to the coast for easy access, too.
Arthur C Clarke suggested Sri Lanka as a possible location for a space elevator. I guess the idea has some merit since there is mostly water to the East and to the West for thousands of miles, so if there's an accident, much of the debris would just fall into the sea. I have no idea how it's supposed to withstand typhoons tho.

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Lucifer Baphomet

Arthur C Clarke moved Sri Lanka for storytelling purposes though.

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detrius

Did he put the island on the equator for his story? I didn't get the book yet. (Made the mistake of buying the "Rendezvous with Rama" sequels instead - awful books, waste of money.)

There might be some tolerance that would make building it there possible though if Sri Lanka isn't too far off the equator.

Nel Shan

The picture I saw had the cable anchored in Indonesia. Let me see if I can find it...



Also, Ray, I can go to the beach any time. With a space elevator I could go to space any time. I could do both. It's not an either/or proposition.

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Nel Shan

For every degree off the equator that the anchored end is, the station would have to wobble by two degrees, and the cable would have to stretch as the station moved. Sri Lanka's about 6° N, so that implies 12° or about 1000 miles of wobble, and I can't be bothered to work out the stretch. I'm not an engineer, but I wouldn't want to build it that way. Easiest is to put it on the equator.

Mukatsuku

Now I realise how scary this thing would look

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detrius

And if it snaps, it'll neatly wrap itself around the equator.

bilbo99 emu

Unless he wrote more than one book on this subject I think it must have been Fountains I read. Amazing concept.
I'm with Ray though .. with a third of the world population hungry, why?
For indescribable, I'd stick with a Radox bath.

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