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Enraged ranting aside, lately I've been thinking alot about what I've come to call "The Eli Combs Megadome" which in short is a geodesic dome with a radius of 100km for the purposes of climbing said megadome into space. (100km being an arbitrary decition for the boundry between earth and space, which is accualy very esoteric and hard to really define, but 100km will sufice) See, I'm sick of waiting for the space elivator, it would be awesome and all, and certianly a more eligant device certialy less of a grandious engenering project, but it's a compleatly unproven technology that analasis I've read says is at least 15years away. If I've learned anything about technology that's 15 years away from the fule cell or fusion power plants it's that it's likely somthing more like 75 years away. so, why not build a device capable of carrying us into space under conventional power out of exsistant technology? It has come to my attention that we've been able to build compleatly scaleable domes sense the 1920's or so when buckmenster brought it all to our attention that there was no reason we couldn't use his domes to build fantisiful things like islands, or cities that fly (because the domes internal area grows expenentuly compared to the weight of its components an enclosed geodesic sphere with a radius of more than 1/2 mile would float like a baloon in the atmasphere if you heated up the inside only 1 degree ferenhiehgt) I am frankly disgusted with my parents and grandparents for lacking the will to build a gigantic dome that you could use to ride a train into space (if you're reading this china you could totaly outstrip the american and russian space programs if you built somthing like this, why fuck around with trying to catch up to our silly rocketry when we've been neglecting much better ways to get into space for generations?)
But Eli, you may ask, why do we have such an urgent need to get into space? I have two words for all you naysayers INTRA-GALACTIC COMPOTITION it's entierly posable that the galaxy is just teaming with Klingons and Skarens do you really want them to catch us with our pants down like we are now, nigh unable to leave the bounds or our gravity well with more than a suitcase full of scientific insterments? the answer is undoubtably no, so it being assumed that we are not GOD the father's only creation I'd like to pose a two part question to anybody who still reads this long dead blog.
1) Do you think that the fellows in the white coats are right and we can't really travel faster than light, and we'll never find a way around that?
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2) how are we doing in the galactic technology race? (things to consider) the earth's whole dinosoar phase demonstrates to us that we could be as much as 65million years behind, but also shows us that even life bareing planets can rest in stable uningelegent systems for millions of years. also, the conditions of life, at least as we know it, are rareified and fragile had the solar system made a few wrong turns earth could have ended up not at all the plesent place to be on it is today we may be painfully alone out here in the milky way.
But Eli, you may ask, why do we have such an urgent need to get into space? I have two words for all you naysayers INTRA-GALACTIC COMPOTITION it's entierly posable that the galaxy is just teaming with Klingons and Skarens do you really want them to catch us with our pants down like we are now, nigh unable to leave the bounds or our gravity well with more than a suitcase full of scientific insterments? the answer is undoubtably no, so it being assumed that we are not GOD the father's only creation I'd like to pose a two part question to anybody who still reads this long dead blog.
1) Do you think that the fellows in the white coats are right and we can't really travel faster than light, and we'll never find a way around that?
and
2) how are we doing in the galactic technology race? (things to consider) the earth's whole dinosoar phase demonstrates to us that we could be as much as 65million years behind, but also shows us that even life bareing planets can rest in stable uningelegent systems for millions of years. also, the conditions of life, at least as we know it, are rareified and fragile had the solar system made a few wrong turns earth could have ended up not at all the plesent place to be on it is today we may be painfully alone out here in the milky way.