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Canadians Vie for Space Elevator Victory

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the to-the-moon-alice dept.

unc0nn3ct3d writes to mention a CBC article about some plucky Canadian teams planning to go for NASA's space elevator challenge. From the article: "Teams based in Saskatoon, Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto are among thousands of space enthusiasts expected to converge on a desert site in Las Cruces, N.M., on Friday and Saturday for the X-Prize Cup, a festival mounted by the X-Prize Foundation ... The competitors are gearing up for the Spaceward Foundation's Space Elevator Challenge, which requires them to surmount technical obstacles in the development of a new type of vehicle that would take people and cargo from Earth into space."

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  1. Yes but by gwbennett · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    does it run Linux? I for one welcome our elevator building overlords. In Soviet Russia elevators build YOU. etcetera

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  2. Go Canada! by billcopc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hope we get it done first.. -50% mineral costs for every Nessus orbital device makes a big difference in the endgame.

    But seriously though, it'd be nice if my country could pull this one off. We're always so busy cleaning up other people's messes with our peace keeping missions that nothing big ever happens at home. Canada may be once of the nicer places to live, but the only thing this country's a leader in is taxation, and that's not a good thing :P

    Oh and uh, we have better broadband than the USA *snicker* But still not as good as Sweden

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