I thought this thread was about me.....

It is. Someone has to fill Cow Poke's shoes while he's gone.

I miss Cow Poke.

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Pfff. When the dinosaurs arose you were grousing "there goes the neighborhood."

Yeah. But, this:

Bringing up the point that for several hundred million years you had to wait for the first terrestrial plants to arise so that you can make The PIN™

Is he taking a temporary break? I always enjoyed interacting with him.

This is the exact plan that the Dinosaur Engineering Department planned 65 Million years ago. They said hanging a building from an asteroid would be cool. It would be fun. Nobody had every done it they said. Then they did it.
They forgot to take in account their weight and when they entered the building, it pulled down the asteroid. WHAM. No more dinosaurs.

Don't let this happen again.

Yeah he is. I hope it's not that long, but I know he has been pretty busy lately.

Not to mention friction with the atmosphere as the building zips around the Earth would tend to slow the asteroid down over time.

Or what happens when a pilot puts a plane on auto-pilot for some RnR and runs smack dab into the thing at 30,000 feet.

Despite its relative 'creativity and nifty factor', bottom line is its an inherently stupid idea.


Which I believe is your point - yes?


Jim

Didn't you post a picture of my first one? Wasn't it made out of a rock?

yep. moronic. There is no way to accomplish it. 30K miles of cables? We don't have anything with that much strength. Maybe carbon nanotubes but we sure can't make them that long. Then you have to worry about atmospheric drag and weather like you said. Heck this is basically an unanchored space elevator. Can you even have an unanchored building like that? would it even stay near the ground? A space elevator has tension between the anchor and the upper orbiting platform right? This wouldn't. If it didn't just either drag down the asteroid or the asteroid fling itself and the building into space, it could just start acting like a huge pendulum and become pretty erratic.

This. There are so many things wrong with the idea I don't even know where to begin. Too much wishful thinking when it comes to actual building function (water, power, etc). How are they supposed to get up there?

I want to know how to get paid to come up with things like this. I'd love to spend my days putting together wishful ideas that will never get built and get paid for it.