Space Elevator, Can we build one? |
Space Elevator, Can we build one? |
Aug 22 2005, 12:55 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 3-July 04 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 91 |
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Feb 14 2006, 09:28 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 16-March 05 From: Clay County, Indiana, USA Member No.: 199 |
I saw that Brian Dunbar posted some information over at the yahoo space-elevator group. It's concerning news of recent testing. The same info can be found at Liftport's site:
Posted on Liftport's site, dateline Feb 13, 2006: Second Round of Tests |
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Feb 16 2006, 03:24 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Space elevator tether climbs a mile high
NewScientist.com news service Feb. 15, 2006 ************************* LiftPort Group has built a cable for a space elevator stretching a mile into the sky and tethered on balloons, enabling robots to scrabble some way up and down the line. To make the cable, researchers sandwiched three carbon-fiber composite strings between four sheets of fiberglass tape, creating a mile-long cable about 5 centimeters wide and... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedire...sID=5306&m=7610 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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May 22 2006, 07:10 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 3-July 04 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 91 |
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Jun 1 2006, 07:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 311 Joined: 31-August 05 From: Florida & Texas, USA Member No.: 482 |
I can't access the article (without paying). Can someone provide an "executive summary" what the issues are? |
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