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1st Floor: Haberdashery, Curtains. 35,780th Floor: Satellite in Space

SpaceExploration Tuesday, September 27, 2005. Post by Sweetwind

Nice article on space exploration and the space elevator by Arthur C. Clarke over at the Times: 1st floor: haberdashery, curtains. 35,780th floor: satellite in space


chad

October 3rd, 2005 at 8:08 am

Let’s see… Assuming one floor/story is 10 feet, that’s 357,800 feet, which comes out to about 68 miles. The official definition of space is 62 miles, so Clarke’s title has 6 miles to spare. Thus, it could be 32,736 floors and still make space.

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rhoegg

October 5th, 2005 at 12:55 pm

Or, you could assume that space (100km) and the number of floors (35780) are given, and end up with one floor = about 2.8 meters.

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