http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2006 by the authors Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:33:02 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/21/084944.php#comment-445850 Such binary systems exist (like Pluto and Charon, as the author also mentions), but they are relatively rare (at least in our Solar System). Anyway, a "solar bridge" wouldn't work between Earth and Luna, or Earth and Mars, so the entire concept is pretty much far-future stuff... 445850@blogcritics.org Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:33:02 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/21/084944.php#comment-445848 "the author has described accurately why the idea presented would not work. Planets move." True, which is why the author of this post wrote the following: "They would [...] have to be located within a binary system whose worlds are gravitationally locked, otherwise the rotation or orbit of one of these worlds would simply tear the structure in half." 445848@blogcritics.org Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:28:45 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/21/084944.php#comment-445275 Your'e telling a lot bloomy nothing. I learned a lot marketing phrases of what these solar bridges mean in a philosohpic way. But the text tells nothing about the real nature of these bridges. What are they made of? How does some kind of transportation system moves on it. Is it a tether? How is it fixed in the gravitional fields of planets? Why is it favourable instead of a spaceship? Do you have any idea of physics or are you just repeating something you read somewhere else without having understood it? This is indeed a critical blog. 445275@blogcritics.org Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:13:27 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/21/084944.php#comment-445022 Actually, the author has described accurately why the idea presented would not work. Planets move. It's really all that simple. That is why a space elevator, something that the science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke wrote an novel on, would work much better. 445022@blogcritics.org Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:54:56 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/21/084944.php#comment-444856 "Solar" isn't accurate if we are talking about other star systems. The word comes from the name of our sun, Sol. There is only one Solar system then, ours. For instance if there were planets around Vega it would probably be called the Vegan system. Besides, if you are talking about bridges between planets, they would be planetary bridges. 444856@blogcritics.org Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:07:56 EDT