Biggest Phallus evar?!?

[lukep]

I ask you again, what is this valuable tech you speak of?

The ability to take cargo off the surface of the moon and put it into orbit without using any type of rocket fuel... Just battery-driven motors apparently. That would indeed be worth something to a company that mines shit in space, would it not?

Secondly, once they've got that tech down pat, It's just a matter of make it stronger, faster, better, longer to make one on earth eventually. Sure it's just some balloons and a ribbon right now, but he's got the most advanced experiment going and is therefore closest to taking us to that end one day. I'd say that's somewhat valuable, but with a farther-out-term payoff of course.

Umm, guys. What happens when we're riding that elevator to the colony and one of the balloons holding it up springs a leak?

Um, Rex, You do realize that no one and no cargo even would ride up in any space elevator until the end is held up by Centrifugal force and not balloons, right?

At least with goverment funded space programs the resulting technology and discoveries are owned by the public via the government not locked up in the intellectual property of private enterprise ala the recent apple vs samsung fight.

Anarchists are generally against all types of Intellectual Property.

 

[johnmatrix]

The ability to take cargo off the surface of the moon and put it into orbit without using any type of rocket fuel... Just battery-driven motors apparently. That would indeed be worth something to a company that mines shit in space, would it not?

By the time we're mining shit on the moon which is presumably for helium-3, the only worthwhile thing there, we're going to have engine technologies (fusion, hence the helium-3) far superior than we have today making rocket fuel savings a moot point.

Secondly, once they've got that tech down pat, It's just a matter of make it stronger, faster, better, longer to make one on earth eventually.

It's just a matter of developing the strongest material ever known to man into 100,000km of flawless structure. That would wrap around Earth 2 times, by the way. You are dreaming, just like with every other hairbrained scheme you've staunchly supported on here only to have it fizzle out. Chrome OS, the E-Cat, Ron Paul. You don't have a very good track record to be making wild claims. If you're going to get behind something make it SpaceX, a real company achieving real goals.

 

[than_west]

The government deserves your forced donation.

 

[OlegFoma]

We all know that men are supposed to worry endlessly about penis size. In popular mythology a small organ is still thought to signal a totally inadequate lover. All the best books tell us that this idea is absurd but nonetheless the notion persists. What can we say of penis size? How big is the biggest? One problem is who is to do the measuring. If men measure their own organs they are likely to exaggerate the results: it is not an area in which there are abundant objective surveys.

 

[webjedi]

By the time we're mining shit on the moon which is presumably for helium-3, the only worthwhile thing there, we're going to have engine technologies (fusion, hence the helium-3) far superior than we have today making rocket fuel savings a moot point.

If you're going to get behind something make it SpaceX, a real company achieving real goals.

You earned my respect, you are spot on man.
Well except for "the only worthwhile thing up there" statement there's probably a shitload up there
a) then was reported
b) then was found
c) that we don't know how to use yet

I have an FAA document of all the spaceports being built in the USA, unbelievable so many !