Space elevator team wins $900,000

[Chris]

A Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the sky.

The homemade cable-climber built by the LaserMotive team climbed a 3,000-foot (900-meter) tether suspended by a helicopter at a speed of 8 mph (3.7 meters per second or 13 kilometers per hour) during a Wednesday attempt.

LaserMotive's robot climber managed to get all the way up the cable four times in two days, with a best time of about 3 minutes and 48 seconds (translating to a speed of 3.9 meters per second).

The feat was the best performance yet for a miniature space elevator prototype and qualified LaserMotive to win the lower-level prize of NASA's $2 million Power Beaming Challenge this week at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. The contest requires competitors to beam power from a remote source to propel their vehicles up a quarter-inch-thick steel cable dangling from a helicopter.

The 2009 Space Elevator Games are the first in which prize money has been awarded. This year's event was "a very successful competition," said Andy Petro, director of NASA's Centennial Challenges program. "Power beaming is truly a 21st-century technology."

Space elevator team wins $900,000 from NASA - Space.com- msnbc.com

 

[Meister]

A Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the sky.

The homemade cable-climber built by the LaserMotive team climbed a 3,000-foot (900-meter) tether suspended by a helicopter at a speed of 8 mph (3.7 meters per second or 13 kilometers per hour) during a Wednesday attempt.

LaserMotive's robot climber managed to get all the way up the cable four times in two days, with a best time of about 3 minutes and 48 seconds (translating to a speed of 3.9 meters per second).

The feat was the best performance yet for a miniature space elevator prototype and qualified LaserMotive to win the lower-level prize of NASA's $2 million Power Beaming Challenge this week at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. The contest requires competitors to beam power from a remote source to propel their vehicles up a quarter-inch-thick steel cable dangling from a helicopter.

The 2009 Space Elevator Games are the first in which prize money has been awarded. This year's event was "a very successful competition," said Andy Petro, director of NASA's Centennial Challenges program. "Power beaming is truly a 21st-century technology."

Space elevator team wins $900,000 from NASA - Space.com- msnbc.com

Can you find out how much of a carbon footprint it leaves?

 

[Chris]

A Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the sky.

The homemade cable-climber built by the LaserMotive team climbed a 3,000-foot (900-meter) tether suspended by a helicopter at a speed of 8 mph (3.7 meters per second or 13 kilometers per hour) during a Wednesday attempt.

LaserMotive's robot climber managed to get all the way up the cable four times in two days, with a best time of about 3 minutes and 48 seconds (translating to a speed of 3.9 meters per second).

The feat was the best performance yet for a miniature space elevator prototype and qualified LaserMotive to win the lower-level prize of NASA's $2 million Power Beaming Challenge this week at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. The contest requires competitors to beam power from a remote source to propel their vehicles up a quarter-inch-thick steel cable dangling from a helicopter.

The 2009 Space Elevator Games are the first in which prize money has been awarded. This year's event was "a very successful competition," said Andy Petro, director of NASA's Centennial Challenges program. "Power beaming is truly a 21st-century technology."

Space elevator team wins $900,000 from NASA - Space.com- msnbc.com

Can you find out how much of a carbon footprint it leaves?

You really are a douche.

 

[DiveCon]

A Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the sky.

The homemade cable-climber built by the LaserMotive team climbed a 3,000-foot (900-meter) tether suspended by a helicopter at a speed of 8 mph (3.7 meters per second or 13 kilometers per hour) during a Wednesday attempt.

LaserMotive's robot climber managed to get all the way up the cable four times in two days, with a best time of about 3 minutes and 48 seconds (translating to a speed of 3.9 meters per second).

The feat was the best performance yet for a miniature space elevator prototype and qualified LaserMotive to win the lower-level prize of NASA's $2 million Power Beaming Challenge this week at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. The contest requires competitors to beam power from a remote source to propel their vehicles up a quarter-inch-thick steel cable dangling from a helicopter.

The 2009 Space Elevator Games are the first in which prize money has been awarded. This year's event was "a very successful competition," said Andy Petro, director of NASA's Centennial Challenges program. "Power beaming is truly a 21st-century technology."

Space elevator team wins $900,000 from NASA - Space.com- msnbc.com

Can you find out how much of a carbon footprint it leaves?

You really are a douche.

no, that would be you, since its clear you can't answer the question

 

[Polk]

I am looking forward to the day we have functioning space elevators. It'll be revolutionary.

 

[Chris]

I am looking forward to the day we have functioning space elevators. It'll be revolutionary.

Once we develop carbon nanotubes, many, many, revolutionary products will emerge including space elevators and solar panels that will power our houses.

We should pour much more money into carbon nanotube research.

Then we can tell the Saudis to kiss our ass.

 

[KittenKoder]

I am looking forward to the day we have functioning space elevators. It'll be revolutionary.

Once we develop carbon nanotubes, many, many, revolutionary products will emerge including space elevators and solar panels that will power our houses.

We should pour much more money into carbon nanotube research.

Then we can tell the Saudis to kiss our ass.

You don't know much about the science involved ... which is easy to see since you keep bringing those up ... simply put ... when we have full sized computers that can fit on your wrist, then your fantasy will be possible, until then, it's just a fantasy.

 

[DiveCon]

I am looking forward to the day we have functioning space elevators. It'll be revolutionary.

Once we develop carbon nanotubes, many, many, revolutionary products will emerge including space elevators and solar panels that will power our houses.

We should pour much more money into carbon nanotube research.

Then we can tell the Saudis to kiss our ass.

You don't know much about the science involved ... which is easy to see since you keep bringing those up ... simply put ... when we have full sized computers that can fit on your wrist, then your fantasy will be possible, until then, it's just a fantasy.

well, it does seem that chris lives in a fantasy reality

 

[Meister]

I am looking forward to the day we have functioning space elevators. It'll be revolutionary.

Once we develop carbon nanotubes, many, many, revolutionary products will emerge including space elevators and solar panels that will power our houses.

We should pour much more money into carbon nanotube research.

Then we can tell the Saudis to kiss our ass.

Beam me up, Scotty.

 

[Chris]

I am looking forward to the day we have functioning space elevators. It'll be revolutionary.

Once we develop carbon nanotubes, many, many, revolutionary products will emerge including space elevators and solar panels that will power our houses.

We should pour much more money into carbon nanotube research.

Then we can tell the Saudis to kiss our ass.

You don't know much about the science involved ... which is easy to see since you keep bringing those up ... simply put ... when we have full sized computers that can fit on your wrist, then your fantasy will be possible, until then, it's just a fantasy.

Shouldn't you be burning some Beatle records or something?

 

[eagleseven]

Carbon nanotubes are great stuff, great stuff!

They just have this annoying tendency to repel eachother, which makes it particularly difficult to form them into a macro-sized fiber...or a macro-sized anything.

 

[Chris]

Carbon nanotubes promise to revolutionize everything from medicine to electronics and power generation. Unfortunately nanotubes are notoriously hard to work with and chemists worldwide have struggled for years to even make them. Now researchers have unveiled a method for the industrial-scale processing of pure carbon nanotube fibers that builds upon the tried-and-true processes that chemical firms have used for decades to produce plastics.

One of the main reasons plastic is so cheap is because of the massive throughput that’s possible with fluid processing. Polymers can be melted or dissolved and processed as fluids by the train-car load and adopting the same technique to allow the processing of carbon nanotubes as fluids opens up all of the fluid-processing technology that has been developed for polymers.

The technique developed by scientists at Rice University builds upon a 2003 Rice discovery of a way to dissolve large amounts of pure nanotubes in strong acidic solvents like sulfuric acid. The research team subsequently found that nanotubes in these solutions aligned themselves, like spaghetti in a package, to form liquid crystals that could be spun into monofilament fibers about the size of a human hair.

Producing carbon nanotubes on an industrial scale

 

[eagleseven]

But a final breakthrough remains before the true potential of high-quality carbon nanotubes can be realized. That's because all the methods of making high-end, "single-walled" nanotubes generate a hodgepodge of nanotubes with different diameters, lengths and molecular structures. Scientists worldwide are scrambling to find a process that will generate just one kind of nanotube in bulk, like the best-conducting metallic varieties, for instance.

Producing carbon nanotubes on an industrial scale

 

[dilloduck]

I am looking forward to the day we have functioning space elevators. It'll be revolutionary.

Once we develop carbon nanotubes, many, many, revolutionary products will emerge including space elevators and solar panels that will power our houses.

We should pour much more money into carbon nanotube research.

Then we can tell the Saudis to kiss our ass.

they will be the only ones who can afford them-----and I want to ride an elevator into space because?

 

[Harry Dresden]

A Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the sky.

The homemade cable-climber built by the LaserMotive team climbed a 3,000-foot (900-meter) tether suspended by a helicopter at a speed of 8 mph (3.7 meters per second or 13 kilometers per hour) during a Wednesday attempt.

LaserMotive's robot climber managed to get all the way up the cable four times in two days, with a best time of about 3 minutes and 48 seconds (translating to a speed of 3.9 meters per second).

The feat was the best performance yet for a miniature space elevator prototype and qualified LaserMotive to win the lower-level prize of NASA's $2 million Power Beaming Challenge this week at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. The contest requires competitors to beam power from a remote source to propel their vehicles up a quarter-inch-thick steel cable dangling from a helicopter.

The 2009 Space Elevator Games are the first in which prize money has been awarded. This year's event was "a very successful competition," said Andy Petro, director of NASA's Centennial Challenges program. "Power beaming is truly a 21st-century technology."

Space elevator team wins $900,000 from NASA - Space.com- msnbc.com

Can you find out how much of a carbon footprint it leaves?

You really are a douche.

why dont you answer the question Chris?.....just askin....

 

[KittenKoder]

Carbon nanotubes promise to revolutionize everything from medicine to electronics and power generation. Unfortunately nanotubes are notoriously hard to work with and chemists worldwide have struggled for years to even make them. Now researchers have unveiled a method for the industrial-scale processing of pure carbon nanotube fibers that builds upon the tried-and-true processes that chemical firms have used for decades to produce plastics.

One of the main reasons plastic is so cheap is because of the massive throughput that’s possible with fluid processing. Polymers can be melted or dissolved and processed as fluids by the train-car load and adopting the same technique to allow the processing of carbon nanotubes as fluids opens up all of the fluid-processing technology that has been developed for polymers.

The technique developed by scientists at Rice University builds upon a 2003 Rice discovery of a way to dissolve large amounts of pure nanotubes in strong acidic solvents like sulfuric acid. The research team subsequently found that nanotubes in these solutions aligned themselves, like spaghetti in a package, to form liquid crystals that could be spun into monofilament fibers about the size of a human hair.

Producing carbon nanotubes on an industrial scale

A source that uses Wicrapedia as a source ... damn ... that is just a fantasy world you live in. You do realize that nanotechnology, all forms of it, depend on the ability to create nano-gate CPUs first, all of it does. I recommend you search for info on that first and study up on it, it's something we have been working on for decades, each time you see a better CPU available, it's because of that research. As I said, until we can get the digital technology that small first, anything else is just fantasy, period.

I know a bit about this shit, I grew up studying it while morons like you were out playing kick ball in the school yard.

 

[garyd]

And once again people that actually know something throw cold water on Chris' fantasies. And if we'd drill for the shit we already have available we could tell the Saudis to kiss our butts anyway. oh and at about 3.9 mph how many yar would it take you to get anywhere worth going.

 

[KittenKoder]

Seems to me that the actual intelligence level required to be a "Real Estate Sales Agent" is not very high ... all he must do is read from cue cards.

 

[garyd]

Pretty much. I suspect he really isn't a broker which actually does take some pretty intense training but rather a piddlin' little sales associate.

 

[KittenKoder]

Pretty much. I suspect he really isn't a broker which actually does take some pretty intense training but rather a piddlin' little sales associate.

That would make sense.