User:Waynus1962

Hi guy’s, Found some interesting & quite bizarre stuff while zooming around your cyberspace… Some content is just pure dreams, but some are quite practical & achievable I think??? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it was Juels Verne who 1st said… “Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact”

I reckon that no human inventive thought is unachievable… The factors of making it happen are simple, yet not easy to achieve… A NEED, A DREAM, AN IDEA, A TEAM … The rest will automatically follow, like funding, prototyping, marketing, construction / production etc.

Let me start with A need, A Dream, An Idea...

As most of you are probably aware, the current NASA space shuttle uses around 90% of it’s payload in fuel, which is aborted after leaving earths orbit and atmosphere… This is a huge amount of precious weight & fuel to simply burn up and throw away, not to mention the huge safety risk involving carrying large amounts of fuel (we all know about that).

Can you imagine a very safe launch of a shuttle, or some sort of vehicle into space with up to 90% payload & less than 10% stored fuel for its maneuvers and return home?

A NEED: To launch extra-terrestrial vehicles safely into space carrying maximum payload & return home safely.

A DREAM: To explore space, find new frontiers, to exploit new worlds for the benefit of mankind.

AN IDEA: To build a facility capable of launching extra terrestrial vehicles into space without using the vehicles own power. Vertical Launch Port Chute (VLPC)

A TEAM: I declare myself the founder of this idea that I will now share with you…

What I need is input & commitment to make it happen… This idea may seem bizarre at first, but please give it some thought…

I propose to construct a launch chute (with your help) at the dead centre of either the North or South Pole…. It will be constructed simply by using ice as the veneer of a huge chute (Chimney) 35,000 feet tall… YES ICE… Only the Eskimo’s have used ice as a building material… I think it can be used in a far larger scale project such as this… After all, we are not short of the stuff at our Poles?

When constructed, it will catapult a vehicle into space using simple, yet very high speed hydraulics to achieve an escape velocity from earth’s gravity & atmosphere.

Ice will make an excellent veneer & scaffold for the later inner construct of steel or other reinforcement. Ice can be heated and liquefied into water, then pumped up higher & higher where it can be poured like instant concrete to the top of the chute. There is no reason why this technique of construction can’t go all the way into the fringe of space?

I understand there will be difficulties in breathing, coldness, etc; especially once it gets to around 10,000 feet above sea level. Well these are the challenges to overcome and that’s why I need you guy’s to figure out the rest for me…

Please give me your thoughts… All comments are welcome including critisism... I need cridicts for this idea to take form, need to hear concerns, comments etc. & challenge them. Also need constructive thoughts as well.

Meanwhile… Check this link, seems I’m not the only one thinking of this sort of stuff…  http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002387.html