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nub340
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I was watching something about the Space Elevator the other night and thought of something crazy. What if instead of having a carbon nanotube "ribbon" stretching from the ground up past geosync orbit, you had a carbon nanotube "Tube" (hollow cylindrical "ribbon" if you will). Now image the tube is open on both ends so you could theroetically climb up it on the inside. Wouldn't the complete vacuum of space be "sucking" on it like a GIANT straw? And if so, couldn't you then launch stuff into space by just letting it suck it up the tube? Kinda like making a deposit @ the bank. No beaming of enery to a climber etc.. just build a capsule, fill it up w/whatever, place it directly under the Tube opening and thwooomp.... gone. Yes, I was stoned.