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Let's Build a World SpacePort. I can only surmise that if there are aliens congesting the astral highways that they tend to change the channel when they get our annoying commercial signals.
I mean, would you drive to Delueth, Minnesota just because the constantly bombarded you with Happy Days? Why
not advertise the best of Humanity as well as possible refueling chemicals in order to encourage commerce?
Space Rocket Launch Sites Around The World
http://www.spacetod...ts/LaunchSites.html
[jurist, Jan 09 2007]
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Chile would be silly,
But Peru will do. |
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Unless it's actually an equatorial spaceport. |
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Which would be the logical place to put one. |
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If UnaBubba and friendlyfire mean the equatorial space center in Alcantara, Brazil, the idea is then doubly baked. They lost their third rocket on the launch pad yesterday in a spectacular explosion. At the latest report, twentyone technicians lost their lives as they were preparing for a launch of two satellites on Monday. |
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I did pick Ecuador as it is on the equator and would have mountain ranges on which a landing pad could be built.
This would put potentially dangerous emissions far away from heavily populated areas and allow for less fuel required to escape orbit. I am also assuming several things:
1. There is somewhat heavy intersteller trade.
2. There might be something that an alien trading culture would find worthwhile on our Planet.
3. That possibly a UN Xeno-force could be formed to ensure the protection of aliens landing for refueling or a sampling of the local cuisine.
4. That we would somehow be able to create an understandable advertisement. (The reference to Happy Days meant that of all the data which might be getting received out there, most of it would probably discourage something from coming here if it were deciferable.)
And I did forget to take my pills again today, oh well. |
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//a UN Xeno-force// all dressed in black, right? |
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Sounds like you started with one idea but explained another. |
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I hear there's advantages of launching rockets on or near the equator. That's why Kennedy is in Fla intead of Alaska. any country in that region should do. |
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As for making the TV signals that leak into space more attractive to aliens: as soon as they start buying the sponsor's products. |
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Build it in the poorest available to generate income for the area. |
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//That's why Kennedy is in Fla intead of Alaska//
That, and the fact that O-rings generally (though not always) work better in warmer latitudes. |
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Preheated in any number of novels. |
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Assuming all that you've assumed, you'd also have to find out what products the aliens would want. |
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Maybe Xenon gas is a hot commodity for aliens? |
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