Canada to build world's 1st 20 km-high space elevator? - Page 2 - GoFuckYourself.com

dyna mo · 08-19-2015, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by RebelR

That would be a really really long and uncomfortable ride up.

JFK · 08-19-2015, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by CyberSEO

Would be real cool if erected.

Seems like there's a joke in the somewhere? The worlds largest erection and its Canadian Eh ?

LatinaCamChat · 08-19-2015, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth

Almost 13 miles.

He's referencing Zoolander

LatinaCamChat · 08-19-2015, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by mineistaken

Rochard strikes again.

And why 10 years? Why not 5 or 20?

Everything happens at certain point, why this should have happened in 2005 and not in 2025?
Why, genius, why

dyna mo · 08-19-2015, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by LatinaCamChat

He's referencing Zoolander

thank you! i was wondering if anyone got the reference.

ilnjscb · 08-19-2015, 08:38 PM

just a patent - anyone with $375 can patent anything that isn't already patented. You can patent a damn website, or a comic book idea.

That doesn't mean they have a contract, or any money, or any ability to follow through.

_Richard_ · 08-20-2015, 01:10 AM

interesting the concept build is only 1.5 km

Elli · 08-20-2015, 09:23 AM

Who's in charge of this round of SimCity? This seems like a rather silly project.

RyuLion · 08-20-2015, 01:02 PM

What's the point of that?

freecartoonporn · 08-20-2015, 01:07 PM

not sure if serious or really stupid .

HelmutKohl · 08-20-2015, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by k0nr4d

First thing that came to mind

I knew that one would bring your attention.

dyna mo · 08-20-2015, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Elli

Who's in charge of this round of SimCity? This seems like a rather silly project.

CDSmith · 08-21-2015, 10:47 AM

Mo you're on fire in this thread. 10 hours of elevator music... too funny.

But this got me curious... just how long a vertical bus ride would it be? 20 km = 65,616 ft. Now, the express elevator at 1 World Trade Center travels at 2000 feet per minute, and 20 of the other 66 elevators travel at 1800 feet/min. Other tall structures report elevators travelling at 1600 ft/min, while Taipei 101 in Taiwan, currently the tallest completed building in the world, is believed to have the fastest elevators, traveling at 3,314 feet a minute.

So at 2000 ft/minute it would actually take 32.8 minutes to reach the top.

If they went with one of the fastest, say 3000 ft/min, the ride time is down to just under 22 minutes.

We're gonna need more elevator music.

PiracyPitbull · 08-21-2015, 11:10 AM

3-5 years to complete and $5-10bn cost, those projections are miles off unless they're working with the experts at Prestige Worldwide.

Elli · 08-21-2015, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by dyna mo

Stop it! Too silly!

TheSquealer · 08-21-2015, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by PiracyPitbull

3-5 years to complete and $5-10bn cost, those projections are miles off unless they're working with the experts at Prestige Worldwide.

Haha - thats pretty good

Choopa Phil · 08-21-2015, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by CDSmith

Mo you're on fire in this thread. 10 hours of elevator music... too funny.

But this got me curious... just how long a vertical bus ride would it be? 20 km = 65,616 ft. Now, the express elevator at 1 World Trade Center travels at 2000 feet per minute, and 20 of the other 66 elevators travel at 1800 feet/min. Other tall structures report elevators travelling at 1600 ft/min, while Taipei 101 in Taiwan, currently the tallest completed building in the world, is believed to have the fastest elevators, traveling at 3,314 feet a minute.

So at 2000 ft/minute it would actually take 32.8 minutes to reach the top.

If they went with one of the fastest, say 3000 ft/min, the ride time is down to just under 22 minutes.

We're gonna need more elevator music.

I doubt they would use regular passenger elevator tech in something as advanced as this. Something along the lines of a mag-lev/vertical monorail type system would be ideal and could travel extremely fast. To go down just reverse the polarity

CDSmith · 08-21-2015, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Choopa Phil

I doubt they would use regular passenger elevator tech in something as advanced as this. Something along the lines of a mag-lev/vertical monorail type system would be ideal and could travel extremely fast. To go down just reverse the polarity

I'm not seeing anything on this regarding vertical service, but yes definitely if it were doable it appears that posted mag-lev speeds would drastically reduce the 20km lift/descent time by more than half.

Of course.. that top speed of mag-lev is pretty high, you wouldn't want brake failure causing you to, well, literally fly into orbit. You might rival this guy for world freefall record.

Choopa Phil · 08-21-2015, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by CDSmith

I'm not seeing anything on this regarding vertical service, but yes definitely if were possible it appears that posted mag-lev speeds would drastically reduce the 20km lift/descent time by more than half.

Of course.. that top speed of mag-lev is pretty high, you wouldn't want brake failure causing you to, well, literally fly into orbit. You might rival this guy for world freefall record.

Its called linear induction. Having the track be vertical or horizontal would not matter. You use electricity to control the forces of the magnets that propel the elevator car up or down, no conventional "brakes"

There are a few roller coasters that use this technology as well as launchers on air craft carriers. Not something you would see in a passenger elevator anytime soon!

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