Sunday 23 January 2022

Think I Will Wait For My Moon Trip Thanks

If i ever wanted to visit the bit of Moon that i own, i would need to spend millions on a rocket and as i don't think my boss would allow me to claim it on expenses i would need to just forget it or find another way to cover the 250,000 miles to the Moon.   
Luckily there are plans to develop alternative methods of travel to our interstellar neighbour although i don't think i will be volunteering to test them out.
Under consideration is a space elevator which was first proposed by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1895 which is a platform that goes all the way from the ground to a space station orbiting Earth but as you will still need a rocket to land on the Moon it doesn't really solve my problem.
Next up for consideration is the space gun which would literally shoot people from a tube into space although the required force to propel a human out of the Earths atmosphere would instantly compress a person by half, leading to death which is not an ideal solution so thanks and we will let you know...not.
The launch loop is an interesting idea, it looks like a roller coaster which goes from Earth, up out of the Earths gravitational pull where you would launch off and then back down again but you still have the issue of going from the top to the Moons surface so still no good.
A company called World View has an idea that i have always wondered why it isn't used, a massive great helium balloon.
So it may take 2 hours to reach the top of the atmosphere rather than the 4 minutes oif a rocket trip but imagine the views but the World View people do have a warning that they still have to work out how to work out the safety measures against the balloon falling back to Earth or flying off into space ao we will put that one in the maybe pile.
Nikola Tesla did come up eith the idea of an orbital ring which encircles the Earth with
several points along the ring would be connected to ground stations here on Earth. Elevators would be installed in the ground stations to allow us to travel into space and this idea has become the basis of something called the Space Fountain.
They have the ground and space stations of Tesla's idea but without the elevators, instead they use an upside U shaped chamber in a tube, a ball and water usign the principle of a fountain with the ball pushig the chamber remaining atop the water which would be forced up the pipe by the weight of the water behind it.
All very promising but i think i will for something less likely to end in my guaranteed death thank you.

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