Space Vacuum Tube vs Elevator ?

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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.
 
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vogon13

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Not even close . . . .<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>
 
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vogon13

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BTW, what does the tube do?<br /><br />The endless eternal vacuum of space is sucking on the entire atmosphere in any regard . . . <br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>
 
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weeman

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LOL. I think this idea of giant "bank-teller-suction-tubes" has already been used in Futurama. I would be careful, or Matt Groening might come sue someone on this board!! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>
 
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tgharris

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What if instead of a single ribbon, you used a continuous loop of ribbon, like a conveyor belt stretching from Earth to space and back, with motors moving the ribbon.<br /><br />That would make the "elevator cars" far less complex wouldn't it? As well as obviating any probles with power transmission...<br /><br />
 
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