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Originally Posted by novakru
OK.
But once you're in space-then what??
Are they going to build a giant space mall to amuse us?
Didn't they try this once?
I think I read a story somewhere in the bible about something similar
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Not quite the tower of babel :)
I heard about this theory years ago, and I kept thinking, if the station is staionary, how does it stay up? Satellites stay up because they are flying around REALLY fast. Guess what, it uses centrifugal force. The same thing that makes you stick to the side of a Turkish Twist will keep it up in the air. Basically, the station is tied to the earth, and the spin of the earth holds it up, pretty much the same way the end of a rope can be parallel to the ground if you spin fast enough while holding it.
here is the scary part: if the "elevator" is severed, the station flings off into space at some ridiculous speed like 35,000 miles an hour....