> From: Abrigon Gusiq <[email protected]> > Been Stalk, is a nice idea, but one main one causes some issues from to > much control in one country, as well as how much drag does it cause on a > planet and what is the long term effects? After all you are tapping into > the natural spin of the planet as well as causing a major air > dam/turbulence in the atmosphere.. > > Some designs are good, and smaller and can be for more than one nation? Or > group of them.. And less of an effect on the air flow.
A space elevator's interference in weather and planetary rotation would be dwarfed by the other tremendous rearrangements of the Earth's surface humans already see fit to make. The retention of water by dams and reservoirs at higher latitudes away from the equator has already had a measurable impact on the spin of the earth for decades; an extended space elevator's exploitation of that spin would move things back towards the original state. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
