Arthur C Clarke purchased the ideal base site over 20 years ago (somewhere in Sri Lanka if I remember): the highest mountain on the equator. Kim Stanley Robinson explores the subject beautifully (in Red Mars / Green Mars / Blue Mars), and gives subtle credit to the source of his inspiration by naming the counterweight asteroid "Clarke". IMHO it will only be time before such a thing is built.
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Arthur C Clarke purchased the ideal base site over 20 years ago (somewhere in Sri Lanka if I remember): the highest mountain on the equator. Kim Stanley Robinson explores the subject beautifully (in Red Mars / Green Mars / Blue Mars), and gives subtle credit to the source of his inspiration by naming the counterweight asteroid "Clarke". IMHO it will only be time before such a thing is built.