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| = Home Page = | | = Home Page = |
| [[SpaceElevatorWikiOverview]] | | [[SpaceElevatorWikiOverview]] |
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| = Our Basic Premises =
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| # One of the premises of the free software movement is that: proof of concept, running code, and presence of community are all that are necessary for success. A wiki cataloging a critical mass of models, spreadsheets, simulations, and documentation, in open formats, will attract people to help find and solve problems.
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| # [[SpaceElevatorSoftware|No toys.]] Anything can be modeled in software so we will increasingly aim to simulate the real thing.
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| # Crawl, walk, run. We have big goals which is fine, and we will get there one step at a time. Any progress is good, however, we are too small to do waste, which is the "No toys" mantra above, and why we should reuse as much as possible -- standing on the shoulders of giants. The best way to make a wiki is not to start writing, but to gather existing things that belong in it!
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| Think big: what would we want from NASA and Intel?
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| = Next Steps = | | = Next Steps = |
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| = Book Revision work = | | = Book Revision work = |
| [[SpaceElevatorBookRevision]] | | [[SpaceElevatorBookRevision]] |
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| = Content =
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| == CAD models ==
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| We need 3-D models in free formats usable by apps like this:
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| http://sketchup.google.com/
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| (I suspect there is a free app to make models in that is better than sketchup, but with free formats, we don't care.)
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| We could build all the basic parts as a 3-D model, then get people improving on all of them in parallel. What really does a climber need to look like?
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| Here is a list of people who will build models for sketchup. http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=c9bd5e6d5b511d0e6c58fbbbefee0599
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| A few space elevator models:
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| http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=space+elevator&btnG=Search&styp=m&reps=1
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| This task is initially an archaeological expedition. Brad finds 3-D models he knows about and puts them up here. (I will go through the sketchup warehouse and create links to any that are cool.)
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| == Particle simulations ==
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| [[Codebase_Analysis#Physics_Engines]]
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| Imagine you built a simulator so that when you added weight to the climber, the ribbon dimensions got bigger. I will figure out how to build that in a video game. If you create a spreadsheet which has the calculations, which boiled down to some simple formula, I could put that formula in. If someone improves the spreadsheet, they can put in a new formula.
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| == Other Software ==
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| NASA's free code: http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/
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