Ross A. Finlayson,
What in the hell is it about LUNAR SPACE ELEVATOR that do you not get?

Is the word "LUNAR" outside and/or taboo of what your all-knowing box
permits?

The ESE is nothing at all like nor worth squat compared to the LSE. Get
it? (obviously not)

I have no problems with the viable physics of the ESE fiasco, as being
technically doable. Spending sufficent time (aka decades), taking our
best talents and resources can accomplish damn near anything, except
cure the common cold and a few thousand other somewhat testing sorts of
things that are killing folks off by the millions and otherwise
stripping away any noton of their having any quality of life.

Brad, I can't say I support the CMM/ISS idea either. If it were on the
other side of the moon, that might be more feasible. Then if the "10
megatonne" kilometer-plus diameter counterweight gets loose it doesn't
land on Earth.
First of all, you and your naysay mindset obviously can't even spell,
as there is no such CMM/ISS.

There's also no such 10 megatonne counterweight, as it's more likely
going to become worth 256 megatonnes and, it's not actually so much a
counterweight as it is another small moon like orb, that which just so
happens to be tethered to the moon, which is a good thing.

A thermal nuclear device within this 256 megatonne (aka borg like)
sphere can essentially vaporise the entire sucker if that becomes
necessary, although fairly small thrusters of perhaps the
Ra--LRn--Rn--ion format will more than suffice for station-keeping
if the tethers go away. Nothing happens overnight, as it would takes
weeks if not months before the CM/ISS could ever become a supposed
threat to Earth, beside we're all going to soon enough die because of
what our resident warlord(GW bush) is planning upon doing anyway. So,
what's your point?

BTW; there are no such lethal "ionizing radiation belts" related to
LL-1, thus folks can actually survive a good stay, especially if kept
inside where there's 50t/m2 between yourself and of what's so gosh darn
nasty and lethal about space, and of otherwise shielded from getting
zapped by all of the lunar TBI worth of it's secondary/recoil
contributions of hard-X-rays.

Clarke said something along the lines of that the Space Elevator will
be possible some fifty years after people stop laughing about it.
Clark was only right if talking about a Lunar Space Elevator, whereas
long after we've been laughing our dumbfounded butts off from within
the efficient safety of the LSE-CM/ISS will there become a sufficient
understanding and subsequently those horrifically spendy CNTs in order
to create those relatively inefficient ESEs, whereas some of the raw
elements plus most of the required energy by which to construct and
operate your spendy ESEs will have been derived from the one and only
LSE and of it's tether dipole element that can if need be reach a
platform that's chuck full of those 100 GW laser cannons to within 4r
of Earth.

Your Earth Space Elevators notions are horrifically spendy to R&D,
spendier yet to construct and deploy, and they'll remain as nearly
impossible to keeping those suckers up and running, especially if you
and your friends keep ****ing off the likes of Muslims. If China or
some mostly Islamic/Muslim nation establishes the LSE-CM/ISS before we
do, there'll be no freaking way that your ESE's will ever last
throughout one lunar cycle. Are you planning upon deploying a new ESE
each week?

As you must realize, the payback for those ESE's isn't all that likely
to amount to 10% of their overhead, whereas the LSE's payback is going
to become worth more than ten fold it's overhead. Do the math and
count those lives that'll still be part of this life as we know it,
whereas your WW-III based ESEs are most likely of what's going to suck
the remaining life out of whomever's left standing, that which at this
ongoing rate will most likely become of those being primarily Muslims.

I'm not saying that your being passively OK with the godoffal spendy
and inefficient ESEs are not of what's some day going to be doable.
However, it's quite obvious that your naysayism and pro-Busishism is
stuck deeply into a very brown-nosed status quo, of a terrestrial box
mode of having to ignore the facts, excluding evidence and/or just
being downright opposite to anything that's not of your idea. Why is
that?
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Brad Guth