Re: LEO HighRise Agricultural, Industrial, Office and Condos (starting at $1000/sf + 1% annual member fees)

BradGuth <bradguth@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> (Everett M. Greene) wrote:
> > BradGuth <bradg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> > > LEO HighRise accommodates 1.8e9 < 3.6e9 (excluding sublevels)
> >
> > > When this 100 mile high structure is drawn at a 1:1 scale with
Earth,
> > > it doesn't look so terribly big or tall.  When drawn along side
mount
> > > Everest is when it looks extremely tall.
> >
> > Won't there be a problem with utilities -- water, sewage, air,...?
> > The view from upper floors would be spectacular (you can watch the
> > satellites go by if nothing else), but breathing might be a bit
> > difficult unless everything's pressurized.  From where is the food
> > and fuel going to come and to where is the trash going to go?
> 
> Good freaking grief and but of course, absolutely there's going to be
> a few pesky problems, but why does every little stinking detail from
> get to go or from birth to grave have to become yet another all-or-
> nothing kind of topic/author gauntlet?  Just because I have such
> yaysay notions doesn't mean that I'm such an all knowing wizard like
> those that typically naysay upon everything under their passive sun
> which orbits their flat Earth.

There's practical engineering experience that says those pesky
details are what kill otherwise potentially good ideas.  If there
aren't answers to the more obvious problem areas, what about the
little gotchas that will arise later?

BTW:  Learn to clip the non-essential ****tions of earlier postings.