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Space Elevator Gets FAA Clearance
lonesome phreak writes "Techzonez has a short piece about the recent FAA waiver received by the LiftPort Group allowing them to conduct preliminary tests or their high altitude robotic lifters. The lifters are early prototypes of the technology that the company is developing for use in its commercial space elevator to ferry cargo back and forth into space."
Great. Turn the allure of orbital travel into a 200km ride in a claustrophobic box with 17 people, sandwiched against some dude with balls-to-the-walls BO with a tinny rendition of "Girl from Ipanema" playing in the background. Where do I sign up?
My advice to you is to blast off into space NOW, before the glamour of it is all but a memory.
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Sure we do. I've got a copy of the current plan on my hard drive.
We don't have any investors,
Several hundred people would say you're wrong.
We don't have a product,
That is what the test is about.
Not that a post 90% wrong is rare on /.
Display some adaptability.
I made 4 statements in my post. Youare claiming 3 of those 4 are incorrect.
Then you say my post is 90% wrong.
And your pretend business is doing what now?
Ah - a /. troll. You were sloppy and dismissive of the facts - I never dreamed you'd care about the math of the thing.
Fine. 75% incorrect. 100% asinine.
Display some adaptability.
no...you're dumb...this idea is dumb...the people who came up with it are dumb...anyone who thinks it is a good idea is dumb...dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.
You have to get the thing in geosynchronous orbit and keep it there even though things are going up and down it all the time. Not practical at all.