- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I feel truely ashamed of myself to post in this thread. I'm surprised that it's still up and running. I have really never been at a loss of words until reading this. BorealFace, you haven't been on much anymore. I thought that someone with an imagination as vast as yours would have the sense to know that this will not work. This is, at least, not comprehendable or achievable within our lifetime, nor will it be for many thousands of years to come. I thought that, since everyone is entitiled to their ideas, I'd help you by pointing out some statistics:
The Advantages
- We have a Safe Haven for a few months/ years
- Impressive technology and accomplishment
- Founder will go down in history, as will his followers
- Workers will be recognized
- Lots of money
Problems with the project:
- Costs millions upon millions of dollars for one robot, you'd need many millions to complete this assignment (trillions/ a hell of alot of money that I cannot put into words)
- Since above is not possible, this would not be done in your lifetime to get your profit
- If it is rock and metal, it would have a high magnetism, drawing it to Earth and screwing with all the forces in place
- Only rocket scientists know how to make robots. These robots have much less durablility, less memory capacity, and are fragile. This assignment is too complex for these robots. It takes years to build it, not to mention all the planning.
- Those scientists are always nervous when planning the mission to Moon/Mars, because the risks greatly outweigh the safeties
- Takes 1000s, probably millions of years to make a breathable atmosphere
- People moving in will be unsafe
- Will take a long time for people to move in
- Some people will do it, but others won't
- Terraforming is theory
- Making the oceans, canyons, hills, grass, and all that would be near impossible
- America is still worried about launching satelites and shuttles (Shuttle Discovery is still under heavy surverillance)
- Takes too much time
- It is easier to make an environmental dome on the Moon, which is extremely difficult beyond words
- We (the world) don't have the intelligence to perform such a task
- NASA and all other space organizations use a special type of rocket fuel to launch into space. This fuel is limited, and takes literally tons of it to launch a rocket holding the robot
- Once the Sun moves into the shadow of the moon/Earth, the robots power down and that could damage the project
- The large battery, you'd need thousands of them
- You'd need surveillance to watch the robots functioning; it takes 8 minutes to send signals one way. If the robots is about to screw up, pray that the robot are smart enough not to do it in 18 minutes (robot sends message what it's doing is 8 minutes. NASA receiving and sending one back is 8 minutes, the rest is proccessing information)
- Glass is too thin to hold in an atmosphere. You'd need a greenhouse effect to keep in the atmosphere
- Heat would be a major problem; installing it and all that is too hard; I won't explain how
- If one thing goes wrong, it would cause a chain reaction. Trillions upon trillions of dollars wasted
- Smelting the rocks would have to be done on Earth, and we would need to provide humungous spaces for factories. Can't be done on the Moon; it has no heat to smelt trillions of pieces of rock and metal
- The temperature to melt them is too high
- Casualties
- What if something went wrong on the ring/with the robots/the battery to recharge?
- Only a select few knew how to operate the rockets I mentioned above.
- Balancing out the forces each part of the ring exherts would take tremendous effort
- We should focus on curing AIDS and Bird Flu first
- Too risky to pull off something like this
- The majority of people on this forum think this is bullsh**
- No robot on the Earth has the capacity to function for 1000s of years on this project, such a complex one
- I doubt you'll get enough followers through a video game site.
- The government must permit this, and I'm sure they won't listen to a bunch of people following an idea from a FPS game.
- People will bring sin into your ringworld
- It is too fragile
- Disease will spread, and there won't be much cure for it
- People will definately try to sabotage it, especially terrorists from the Middle East
- Bush literally spends billions and billions of dollars a day for the Iraq War, and we are in debt. This is more than what we spent during WW2. Who's going to lend us more money. Imagine what it will do to the economy.
- 40 miles wide and 2 miles long (if I remember your dimentions correctly) gives you the shape of a line. 2 miles long and 40 in diameter gives you a line. The proportions are way off.
- Too much mathematical genius needed to comprehend this
- It would cost too much for people to come here, and we don't have enough transportation to bring people
- Only God can control the orbit of such large objects
- There are millions of fragments of rocks of all sizes impacting Earth. We just never feel them because of our protective atmosphere. Since our ring won't have procection, it will be destroyed
- This is a huge structure. If it is damaged, lots of tension will arise, and people will make threats until the inhabitants aboard the ring are safe.
- If the ring explodes, then millions of people will die
- It will take years to get all the specifications down, and all the planning. Then you have to deal with the actual construction
- The pressure to succeed
- Taking all the rock from the Moon would be basically eating it alive, and there would be no Moon left in the end.
- The journey to the Moon takes approximately a week
- Where would be store the materials?
- It won't work, but if it does, you will basically be getting everyone's money, including your taxes to fund it
- We will need to pay back the nations that lended us the money
- Extremely few people would risk money and time to invest in such a risky and costly project.
- It is very hard to keep such a large object rotating at a specific velocity to generate its required temperature.
- You would need an exact tilt of the ring
- This is downright moronic
You may be joking, but then you really fooled me.
[Edited on 7/9/2006]