Perhaps you failed to understand plain English. I said "Wind up and throw
like Mickey Mantle" to launch the satellite from the top, since I think 60
miles is LEO and there is almost no friction from atmosphere.
Otherwise you have not explained why this pile of sand or whatever would
collapse.
Z
Zandu Goldbar
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Watamaniuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [space-city] Re: SPACE STATION CREWS TAKE QUESTIONS FROM
ORBIT (fwd)
> Party of Citizens wrote:
>
> > Please explain why the sand pile would fall apart in Alberta but not
at
> >the equator.
> >
> > Z
> >
> >
> > Zandu Goldbar
> > King
> > Loges-de-Corbeaux
> >
> >.................................................
> >
> >
> >
> Z,
>
> I can see that your ability to comprehend English is as limited
> as your knowledge of Physics. If you want to kick a satellite into orbit
> off the top of anything at a 60-mile altitude, whether a pile of sand,
> or a pile of the excrement you're spouting, you'll need to send it off
> at a velocity equal to about once around the earth every 80 minutes or
> so -- all this while the bottom of your launching platform is anchored
> to the earth, and making a circle of the earth only once every 24 hours.
> That platform, is going to fall apart, whether in Northern Alberta or at
> the equator.
>
> However, if you can build a launching platform at the distant end
> of a 23,000 mile long cable fastened to the earth at the equator, and
> the cable be made of a material with sufficient tensile strength, you
> could, theoretically, kick a satellite off the launching platform and
> have it go into a 'geo-stationery (only)' orbit. Such a cable could,
> theoretically, be built of carbon fibres, but fibres that long have not
> yet been manufactured. This will work, in theory, but ONLY at the
equator.
>
> Bill W
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