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Subject: The elevator should have gone up...

Have you seen my mind anywhere? I seem to have lost it...

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I have seen you future

Two points that are necessary to this theory.

1) How an orbital elevator would in theory work is that it would essentially be a cable thousands of miles long tethered to the ground at a point near the equator that stretches straight up with some sort of counterweight on the end, more cable or a space station that holds the elevator's center of mass in geosynchronous orbit. The centripetal force (A spinning object's desire to leave the loop) of the earth keeps it in standing, not it's own structure. (A cable this long would weigh billions if not trillions of tons). If this works out then the cars can travel up or down and it will stay taut.

2) If an object flying in a circle is able to break free from the loop it will fly off in a straight line. If you don't believe me try it, spin something in a circle and let go, it will fly off in a straight line.

In the level uplift reserve the orbital elevator falls because of structural damage to the base from the slipspace rupture from Regret's carrier.
The elevator should have "fallen up." Since the elevator is held upright by the centripetal force of the earth's rotation and the base is simply a tether, or anchor, and the center of mass is in geosynchronous orbit, the loss of the force holding the elevator down would have made it fly off the surface of the earth. It should have flown slightly west of up to the viewer's eye, since the earth rotates to the east.

  • 02.20.2010 9:03 PM PDT

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The support rings would come back down, because of gravity. Which is what happened.

  • 02.20.2010 9:07 PM PDT
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no only the bottom fell to erath the rest went "up"

  • 02.20.2010 9:13 PM PDT

I'm sorry, but why would you yake the time to type this? It's a game, not a science experiemt! (im not trying to be rude, so please don't get mad)

  • 02.20.2010 9:28 PM PDT

Hey I like a good science article and all, but what is the point of this? It's just a game. Games wouldn't be fun if every little thing was the way it would be in reality. Not trying to be rude it's just that it seems pointless to spend 10 minutes writing about how one little thing in the game isn't realistic.

[Edited on 02.20.2010 10:14 PM PST]

  • 02.20.2010 10:13 PM PDT

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no only the bottom fell to erath the rest went "up"


What he said.

Damnit. He beat me to the punch.

  • 02.20.2010 11:06 PM PDT