It wouldn't be impossible to build, just very difficult. We would have to find an area which is not plagued with too much seismic activity, and then the building would have to have a very large base, and yes the building would have to have new construction techniques to complete it, and yes it would have to be air tight at the top, but once it was finished we would have a docking port for space craft to be readily re-supplied, and re-fueled, .............>
Yikes ! Thats some massive building Paul is proposing.
At 62 miles high, I think it would need a base at least 62 miles in diameter. Just where is this huge volume of material going to come from? Thats the volume of a cone 62 h X 62 base diam in miles.
I think I'd rather go for the Travelator cable constucted out of C.Nano Fibre.
At least the centrifical force of it being pulled around by the Earth would keep it straight and under tension.
Come to think of it.....instead of the Travelator cable anchored at the Equator, would it be subject to less tension (i.e less centrifical force) were it anchored at, or near the N or S pole??
I cant figure that one out.....any ideas anyone?
