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Still More on Space Elevators

Posted by michael on from the stopping-at-every-floor dept.

parseexception writes "The NYTimes is reporting Not Science Fiction: An Elevator to Space. Not a whole lot of technical detail but good read. It is interesting to see alternatives to current space technologies being explored."

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  1. Terrorism and the Space Elevator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Imagine a carbon nanotube sixty miles long falling back to Earth. It could cause massive devastation.

    Let's not start compromising the Earth's security with these things before we have habitable and sustainable backups elsewhere in the solar system.