/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11452641
>Water towers won't get us to Mars anytime soon.
>Water towers don't fly

>>11384445
1st for hop!

>>11325069
>NASA fud shaking

>>11312290

>>10991034
Yes, this is exactly how technology is. The one thing the internet has taught is that people of note are really just a bunch of morons who happen to get something right a small percentage of the time. Be that authors, doctors, scientists, or engineers who make rockets. The people who think, "you can't do that unless you...." are always wrong and were kept wrong via propaganda to prevent them from doing anything noteworthy.

>>10948916
>What would be the cost of making a said space habitats with today's technology?
Motivation to spend money on something with zero initial return on the investment. The people who would benefit from the technology would be no less than 2 generations away. Investors would never get their money back from it. Due to that, no one with actual money spends money on shit like this. There's no technological hurdle preventing us from doing this. It is all sociopolitical-financial.

Your best bet is to remove the space treaty and have the government/military subsidize everything. That's really the only way to kick people in to action. Get there and claim space before the Chinese.

>>10948975
>sunlight at all for the inhabitants
You can't have sunlight in space without atmosphere and magnetosphere to filter it. This is because we do not have glass that can stop enough of the correct radiation to be able to allow windows for normal constant viewing. This is why the cupola on the ISS is the highest cosmic radiation spot of the entire station. On a space station, you will live like you are underground. No sunlight and only artificial lights.

>>10949482
>>10949564
>[earth-based] Space Elevator
Complete sci-fi in all regards.

>Mass Driver
Commercially viable only when reaction mass becomes too costly. Which will never happen since you can make rocket fuel using feces and plant matter.

>Not one webm of this yet.
Damn it, /sci/, at least get, "WEBM for Retards," so you can make webms of this shit. There are a few different youtube vid downloaders online too.