Kasz216 on 28 September 2009
| ManusJustus said: A space elevator would be amazing and our current technology out of reach, but I thought a space elevator was any tower that shot things into space (am I wrong?) For isntance, a large runway to build up speed before it hits a large tower that puts it in orbit. Maybe thats a space cannon. |
I thought a space elevator was a... well an elevator.
You've got Earthbase one on the one side of a giant teather, and on the otherside a spacestation.... and between the two a giant cord on which an elevator worked.
So basically you don't have to spend any rocket fuel or anything to break orbit... one of the hardest and most expensive parts of space travel.
Instead you just take the eleveator up to space... and travel out from there.
