Wedgewood stoves are spelled with the middle E.
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Lunar space elevator (Project Moonstalk) goes from the lunar south pole to L1.
The Lunar South Pole is ~88 degrees away from the closest point on the lunar surface to L1.
I'm not sure what crater is at 0.0 degrees of latitude+longitude on the moon, but that would be the base of a moonstalk held up by tension rather than an enormous tower.
]]>Also, I'm not sure why you feel there is a constraint to place the down-well terminal at 0.0 Longitude?
]]>If you're looking at a lunar beanstalk that extends from the surface out through L1, then you probably want to start on the equator below the L1 point. I suspect that the lunar prime meridian is directly below that. So, 0/0, yes?
]]>Which means that you want the Earth end mounted on tracks3. It'll be doing about Mach 1.4, but I'm sure that's doable2. It could be self-powered, since it's being dragged along by the Moon, so you could extract power from the Earth's rotation.
Hmm.
1 The Moon's Prime Meridian is indeed directly below L1
2 I wouldn't want to live anywhere near, mind. The sonic boom from the cable and ground station would be audible for a very very long way
3 If you leave that station in the stratosphere the boom wouldn't be so bad, and you'd save on the tracks.4
4 Oh crap - there's about 40,000 km orbital eccentricity to soak up too.
]]>I saw the same thing, messed up quotation marks, American Edition, page 95.
]]>"I speak eloquently if painfully (Old Enochian was not designed for human vocal chords), uttering words the Prime Minister embedded in my mind during our last meeting"
"Vocal chords" (sounds made by close harmony singing groups, at least up until King Brian the Wild gets hold of them) should be "vocal cords" (flappy buzzy things in your neck).
]]>Meanwhile, PP slide 1 has me wondering what happened in 1929 to cause the creation of the OPA? Or am I forgetting something from an earlier book (or haven’t gotten to it yet).
]]>As a current resident of the US, I recognize "for walkies" as predominantly a British term for what most American-dialect speakers phrase as "for his/her/their walk."
It is certainly a smooth, worthy sentence as is, with its tiny element for confusing some Yanks.
[Perhaps Gilbert is 'North Atlantic' in his background, family, or usage-persuasion, or perhaps Mrs. Parker hails from the Isles and is gracefully accommodating even under pressure.]
]]>my own typo!
[Perhaps Gilbert is 'North Atlantic' in his background, family, or usage-persuasion, or perhaps Mrs. Parker hails from the Isles and Parker is gracefully accommodating even under pressure.]
]]>I don't think this is a spoiler, it is incidental.
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