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(Some Guy) Cool Elevator to space could be ready in 25 years, begging the question: What would you do if you could go?   (kirotv.com) divider line 368
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acanuck [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 03:16:04 PM  
I'd push every floor's button just before stepping off it

 
Recoil Therapy [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 03:24:03 PM  
Take a parachute & jump off the observation deck

 
Musicology101 [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 03:34:43 PM  
Probably crap my pants.

 
Seth_The_Wide [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 03:48:05 PM  
Duh, sex.

 
CougarJeff [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 04:02:13 PM  
Get to the top and start a TFD thread asking for cat pictures.

 
NuttierThanEver [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 04:12:58 PM  
Seth_The_Wide: Duh, sex.

So what would you do with the other 23 minutes of the 25 minute ride to the top?

 
strangeguitar 2008-07-19 04:18:55 PM  
I'd ask what floor housewares was on.

 
keiverarrow [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 04:19:48 PM  
bone

 
McStubbins 2008-07-19 04:24:17 PM  
no questions were begged...

 
damageddude [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 04:24:50 PM  
Take the stairs -- I hate elevators.

 
PC LOAD LETTER [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 04:25:30 PM  
I beg of submitter to stop raping "begging the question"

 
RoyBatty 2008-07-19 04:25:49 PM  
Moon the earth.

 
vwarb 2008-07-19 04:25:58 PM  
Dude! i totally wrote a report on how this would happen when i was in elementary school. i need to dig that up, so i can prove my psychic ability!

 
jennyz 2008-07-19 04:26:18 PM  
I'd activate my car's wings and I'd fly away. Because that's about as possible as a space elevator.

 
Mart Laar's beard shaver 2008-07-19 04:26:28 PM  
"This is supposed to be an express elevator to hell -- goin' down!!"

www.alicia-logic.com

 
eggrolls [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 04:26:43 PM  
Pee in the corner.

 
Two Dogs Farking [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 04:26:45 PM  
1) Meeting at Microsoft
2) Bunch of lawyers
3) Discussing insurance issues

None of this gives me great confidence that this is going to happen in the next 25 years.

 
itastelikechicken 2008-07-19 04:26:45 PM  
Not another god damn "begging the question" thread.

 
Lumber Jack Off 2008-07-19 04:27:04 PM  
the only serious problem is that it would have to be built out in the middle of the ocean just in case it somehow fell over. otherwise, if we have the technology and the know how, why not build it. it's an old idea, it'd be cool if it were to become a reality.

 
tkirby 2008-07-19 04:27:05 PM  
bungie jump

 
robbiedo 2008-07-19 04:27:11 PM  
Listen to relaxing Muzak.

 
ctobio 2008-07-19 04:27:11 PM  
Two chicks at the same time.

 
RoyBatty 2008-07-19 04:27:22 PM  
itastelikechicken: Not another god damn "begging the question" thread.

Ironic, isn't it?

 
Wulfhardt 2008-07-19 04:27:22 PM  
25 years from now? Well, the world's last smoking area would probably be at the top.

 
newname 2008-07-19 04:28:34 PM  
Drop a peppy

 
Grouchy Old Bear 2008-07-19 04:28:57 PM  
Water balloons

 
that1guy77 [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 04:29:59 PM  
Wow. Microsoft. Nice.

Now, what to do when you get a blue error screen about three-quarters of the way up and free-fall back down?

 
acidsurfer 2008-07-19 04:30:15 PM  
get stoned. in space. then go back down.

 
floor9 [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 04:30:21 PM  
Wulfhardt: 25 years from now? Well, the world's last smoking area would probably be at the top.

We can only hope.

 
HappyLittleTree 2008-07-19 04:30:42 PM  
Use it as a stripper pole?

 
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RoyBatty 2008-07-19 04:27:22 PM
itastelikechicken: Not another god damn "begging the question" thread.

Ironic, isn't it?


img1.fark.net

 
atomicmask 2008-07-19 04:31:06 PM  
Space elevator, like CIV 4 world wonder space elvator?

Sweet, a bonus to space race production and next thing we get is a trip to alpha centari!

 
sandbar67 2008-07-19 04:31:16 PM  
I'm begging the question at this very moment, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

 
psychosis_inducing 2008-07-19 04:31:37 PM  
But will it have skyhooks?

/better not be too obscure

 
obviouscat 2008-07-19 04:31:45 PM  
At the top, I would beg the question.

 
Florida Ed 2008-07-19 04:32:38 PM  
Lumber Jack Off the only serious problem is that it would have to be built out in the middle of the ocean just in case it somehow fell over.

Wouldn't it be longer than the circumference of the Earth? In which case it doesn't really matter where you put it.

 
itastelikechicken 2008-07-19 04:32:44 PM  
RoyBatty: itastelikechicken: Not another god damn "begging the question" thread.

Ironic, isn't it?


I hate you. *chortle* :P

/*snicker*

 
YoungSwedishBlonde 2008-07-19 04:32:58 PM  
Fart and then blame it on the other guy.

 
Can'tLetYouDoThatStarFox 2008-07-19 04:33:20 PM  
Since when does "begging the question" mean "raising the question"?

$50 says that Submitter hangs out in Starbucks cafes and awkwardly hits on women in book stores.

 
BIGNICKEL 2008-07-19 04:33:39 PM  
Shop at the duty-free.

 
Thelyphthoric 2008-07-19 04:34:02 PM  
CANNNNNNONBALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

 
CyranoJones 2008-07-19 04:34:37 PM  
Hang glide down, with an O2 tank and pressure suit.

Or read a certain Ray Bradbury short story and get paranoid about meteors.

/not obscure, but I can't remember the name of it. Someone help a Farker out?

 
FloydA [TotalFark] 2008-07-19 04:34:59 PM  
It Raises the question, subby. It does NOT beg the question.

Begging the question is a logical fallacy in which the validity of the proposition to be proved is assumed in one of the premises.

Raising the question refers to a situation in which an observation inspires further speculation.

Example:
"The space elevator will be completed in 25 years. What you would do if you could ride it?"
This is "raising the question."

"The space elevator is the most efficient way to get into orbit, because all other methods of getting into orbit are less efficient."
That is "begging the question."

/No you can't have an A in logic 101. Not yours.

 
Jack9 2008-07-19 04:35:17 PM  
not going to happen EVER. the engineering and materials necessary to make this feasible in any way would make more conventional propulsion cheaper, quicker, safer anyways not to mention the complete change to society as 5000 story buildings become popular. Secondly, the danger posed by such a contraption would be immense. A simple platform that we let a shuttle launch from is literally under lock and key 24/7 much less the base of a cable that rises into the stratosphere. What about testing? It's basically untestable. Having worked in software, where simple tasks drag on for 2-500 times as long as originally estimated or things breaking with no understanding why (in a near-finite system no less), you get 0 chance of this every happening.

 
MakJeezus 2008-07-19 04:35:32 PM  
YoungSwedishBlonde: Fart and then blame it on the other guy.

THIS

 
Nocens 2008-07-19 04:36:10 PM  
Hock one off the top.

 
Draq 2008-07-19 04:37:32 PM  
Save energy: Take the stairway to heaven instead.

 
Telephone Sanitizer Second Class 2008-07-19 04:37:43 PM  
My best Steven Tyler impression.

 
GreenSun 2008-07-19 04:37:46 PM  
Masturbate inside and then see if the ejaculate would form floating balls of sexuality.

 
sleep lack 2008-07-19 04:37:53 PM  
Lots of Led Zeppelin.

 
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