Space Elevator Science

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaellaine/space-elevator-science-climb-to-the-sky-a-tethered?ref=category

by doc4t • 14 years ago

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lutusp3• 14 years ago

The original title wasn't accurate (something like "help launch a space elevator"). The proposal is to put a balloon at a 2 kilometer altitude. I say this for the sake of accuracy, and to cut through the hype.

The long-term project goal is to create a space elevator on the moon, using a method fraught with practical difficulties (one cannot have a geostationary orbit there, over a particular location on the moon's surface).

Caveat Emptor.

p.s. it seems link submitters can edit their submissions and titles after the fact. This means comments may ultimately refer to nonexistent content.

doc4t2• 14 years ago

What do you think will get more clicks?

The original intriguing and funny title "You can now kickstart a space elevator" or this lame ass boring "Space elevator science"?

Which of the two could get more people potentially interested in science?

You guys are just not about the fun are you?

BTW: Who edited the title?

lutusp3• 14 years ago

> What do you think will get more clicks?

I hate to break this to you, but science is not steered by marketing, by "more clicks". It's steered by evidence. The Kickstarter project isn't about a "space elevator", unless a horse chestnut is actually a chestnut horse.

> Which of the two could get more people potentially interested in science?

Science isn't about persuasion, it's about objective evidence. Being "interested in science" means being interested in what's actually so, rather than being interested in Bigfoot and Ghost Hunters.

> You guys are just not about the fun are you?

Not when people are being asked to invest their money, no. When that's going on, I get dead serious.

> BTW: Who edited the title?

I believe it had to be the originator, he's the only one who has the right/ability to do that.

Space Elevator Science

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