2050 Antarctica

International Space Elevator (ISE)

Chris Chapman 01 Nov 2017

# Space # Transport

2030: With the reduction of global ice, Antartica reveals a wealth of untapped resources. United Nations (UN) claim governance over the continent and start utilising these resources. 2040: With the devastation caused by global warming, there is little alternative but to abandon fossil fuel options to leave Earth’s orbit. Earths dwindling resources are channeled into the construction of The International Space Elevator (ISE). 2050: With the final construction of the ISE over the southern pole of UN Antartica, efficient (fossil-fuel free) space access is achieved. Not only does the ISE revolutionise efficient non-fossil fuel space travel, it can be used to expel the unwanted greenhouse gases into space. Ultimately allowing humans to readjust earth’s greenhouse gases to safe levels, reversing the effects of climate change.

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Ryss Games хмм

14 Feb 2023 0

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Zav It's cool, but that would require meddling with the law of physics, but someway or the other, it's probably gonna work.

20 Apr 2022 0

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Emma Couillard 👍

05 May 2020 1

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Emma Couillard yesssss

05 May 2020 0

friikz There's a problem with the physics of all of this. A space tower could be built on Antarctica, but surely not a space elevator. Space elevators consist of one, or many, tethers connected to a satellite in geostationary orbit. That's where the problem is, geostationary orbit is a circular orbit *over the equator.* And for all I know, Antarctica isn't at the equator, quite the opposite.

01 Dec 2019 3

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Physically Investigated friikz, Exactly a space elevator on antarctica would mean that instead of traveling around the planet you are just going under the planet

22 May 2020 0

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