Comment Re:Telescopes and camping or night-tours (Score 5, Informative) 234
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Elevator traffic. At some point you reach an elevator event horizon where adding a new floor on top means losing one or more floors at the bottom due to needing more elevators to move people to those new floors.
You could make the tower into the Anchor Point for a Space Elevator.
Regular glass doesn't contain any ions, in the same way that regular vegetables don't contain any genes.
I think that you misspelled that, it should have said "regular vegetables don't contain any jeans"
Never going to happen. The energy density of kerosene is at least fifty times that of lithium cells. Even with ten fold advances in battery tech it's simply not going to be feasible.
So even in a post oil world, we'd have to synthesize longer hydrocarbons to fly, I'd think.
I thought the Transparent Aluminum battery was capable of powering a jetliner ?
What are we going to see that we couldn't before?
Light traveling through a glass bottle
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.