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NPR Talks Skyhooks

Posted by Zonk on from the beyond-the-clouds dept.

David writes "NPR's Talk of the Nation this past week featured Brad Edwards, President of Carbon Designs Inc., to talk about their plans to develop an elevator that would lift people to an object orbiting in outer space. The project's homepage details their plans and ambitions. The discussion expands on callers' concerns about such problems as commercial airliners running into the super long cable or if it would act as a conduit for lightning."

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  1. good idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    for me to poop on!

  2. Cripes by phobonetik · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow, never read about something like this on Slashdot before. (Actually, I think the Space Elevator idea is very cool)

  3. Even with all of this innovation... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    Linux is still for fags.

    1. Re:Even with all of this innovation... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I second this. Linux is for fags.

    2. Re:Even with all of this innovation... by LiquidCoooled · · Score: -1, Troll

      I third this notion, with one small exception:

      Linux is still for fags, and white people, black people, chinese, martian, dwarfs, mentally challenged people, hermaphrodites, texans, rich business men, poor business men and even women.
      Apologies to anybody who I missed out, but you are all welcome.

      We hope whoever you are and whatever religion you are using, you should feel at home with linux :)

      Parent poster, you really should have finished your posting and not left it so bare.

      (aren't trolls boring.)

      --
      liqbase :: faster than paper
  4. Nothing new under the sun by a_greer2005 · · Score: 0, Troll

    This has been tried before, it was called the Tower of Babble,grab a Bible and see how the story ends...

  5. Re:Interesting interview by LurkerXXX · · Score: 0, Troll

    South of California, near the equator, they don't have lightning? You're joking.

  6. Tailhook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is this like a mile high tailhook convention?