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Continued Success for Space Elevator Tests
Jacki O writes "According to their Web site the Space Elevator company Lifport recently managed to get their platform and climbing robot to the mile-high mark over the Arizona desert." From the announcement: "A revolutionary way to send cargo into space, the LiftPort Space Elevator will consist of a carbon nanotube composite ribbon eventually stretching some 62,000 miles from earth to space. The LiftPort Space Elevator will be anchored to an offshore sea platform near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, and to a small man-made counterweight in space. Mechanical lifters are expected to move up and down the ribbon, carrying such items as people, satellites and solar power systems into space."
I stood outside my door this morning in Flagstaff, which is 6200 feet above the Arizona desert.
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I think the theory for this method of transportation was disproved by Wile E Coyote a few years ago.
Why don't we just build a 500 mile high pyramid of some description?
Indeed! Then we shall be like gods!
Effettivamente! Allora saremo come i dii!
In der Tat! Dann sind wir wie Götter!
En effet! Alors nous serons comme des dieux!
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
You're high, aren't you?
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
A guy gets on at the bottom and punches all the buttons. For 100,000 km your're thinking, "asshole!"
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"