Posts by BLatro@vis.social
 (DIR) Post #AP9TkaVuM2FEbTasTI by BLatro@vis.social
       2022-10-31T23:16:57Z
       
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       First post!Testing Mastodon in case Twitter becomes too smelly. Liking what I've experienced so far.
       
 (DIR) Post #AP9UCEIMYVq3noRGK0 by BLatro@vis.social
       2022-11-01T06:56:01Z
       
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       @Luca Thank you!
       
 (DIR) Post #APYZpd4GAT7dd445A0 by BLatro@vis.social
       2022-11-13T00:44:30Z
       
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       @odbol @FlyingTrilobite @kristinHenry There must be something to learn from music sampling regarding this. That started out without those grabbing the samples asking for them, but now samples are paid for somehow or other. And ditto for videos posted to YouTube.The artists who don't mind their work used for AI art but would just like to get paid for it, should perhaps create a marketplace of collections of their art specifically for use in AI art?
       
 (DIR) Post #Av1qPO4lGaYCZ6lxIm by BLatro@vis.social
       2025-04-30T01:57:49Z
       
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       I got looking into companies that are thinking about making space elevators, and ended up looking into luna elevators instead. (LiftPort seems a contender here.) This is a good overview of the luna elevator concept (from 5 years ago).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1ytpj3y21EUnlike Earth-based space elevators, a luna elevator could reach from the surface of the Moon to close to Earth.What's more, we could make one now, if we wanted to. No exotic new materials needing to be invented.#MoonElevator #SpaceElevator
       
 (DIR) Post #Av2IAmhaDqKHJZkx60 by BLatro@vis.social
       2025-06-11T23:25:24Z
       
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       @publius Hmm. But would it matter? We land craft on the Moon and it's a moving target. I see a lunar elevator as being useful for getting people from Earth orbit to the Moon and back, and for getting what's mined on the Moon to Earth orbit. It'd save having to lift heavy stuff from Earth to orbit, if that stuff's available on the Moon. Also you wouldn't need rocket fuel to get people from Earth orbit to the Moon. Sunlight would power the elevator. Or are you worrying about the elevator breaking?
       
 (DIR) Post #Av6icdJM6aNpjrCgBU by BLatro@vis.social
       2025-06-14T02:40:38Z
       
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       @publius OK. The surface you mean is the Moon's surface.Looking at LiftPort's approach, they envisage starting the elevator's construction at L1 and building in both directions until one end reaches the Moon, at which point they anchor it and continue building the Earth-end.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9XVHhkWxpIAre you saying the Moon end would not be in sync with the Moon's surface? Or not be able to be put in sync with the Moon's surface? Presumably by the use of rocket's on the Moon end of the elevator.
       
 (DIR) Post #Av75Kg4bOZ7W2Qi4pM by BLatro@vis.social
       2025-06-14T06:55:11Z
       
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       @publius So assuming you're right, there's still a way to make it work.But what about moving stuff along the elevator? That'd affect it's orbit too, right? Which means it might become uneconomic unless the elevator's made very heavy. And making a heavy elevator could prove uneconomic too, so a chicken and egg problem.