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The Space Elevator - Public or Private?

Posted by michael on Tuesday September 21, 2004 @05:25AM from the deep-pockets dept.

AtomicGoat writes "The Space Review reports that a Space Elevator may not get built without help from the U.S. Government, but the notion that 'the DoD can also provide a sense of fiscal discipline when dealing with large, expensive programs' sounds like an Onion story. Right now a small private company (Liftport), not NASA or the Air Force, is in the lead on revolutionary space travel."

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Sight seeing by McFly69 · 2004-09-21 05:27 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I wonder if I can go all the way up just to sight see. Love to be a tourist :)

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What's really expensive... by Pig+Hogger · 2004-09-21 05:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

... is paying those buddhist monks not to bitch when you tear down their temple...
feeding the bots by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-21 05:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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(plus one Informa7iive) by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-21 05:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:Why? by kmmatthews · 2004-09-21 05:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Whoa! A real live descriptive user name.

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