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Elevating Elephants
James D. Miller thinks that a space elevator proposal would be a good
2006 campaign issue for the Republicans: http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=031406E Do I think so? Not so much. http://www.transterrestrial.com/arch...11.html#006611 |
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h (Rand Simberg) wrote:
:James D. Miller thinks that a space elevator proposal would be a good :2006 campaign issue for the Republicans: : :http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=031406E : o I think so? Not so much. : :http://www.transterrestrial.com/arch...11.html#006611 Silly idea. We can't even get cheap launch services going and someone thinks this is the next logical step? I'm left wondering what they're smoking.... -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw |
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In article ,
Fred J. McCall wrote: Silly idea. We can't even get cheap launch services going and someone thinks this is the next logical step? And as Jordin Kare noted a while back, the elevator people say they could give us launch cost of a few hundred a kilogram for a ten-billion investment... but there are plenty of rocket people who think they could match or beat that launch-cost number with a lot less up-front money. "They aren't Boeing, but neither are you." And the nanotube materials that the elevator people need will do wonders for rocket structure, well before they're good enough for elevators. -- spsystems.net is temporarily off the air; | Henry Spencer mail to henry at zoo.utoronto.ca instead. | |
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In sci.space.policy Henry Spencer wrote:
In article , Fred J. McCall wrote: Silly idea. We can't even get cheap launch services going and someone thinks this is the next logical step? And as Jordin Kare noted a while back, the elevator people say they could give us launch cost of a few hundred a kilogram for a ten-billion investment... but there are plenty of rocket people who think they could match or beat that launch-cost number with a lot less up-front money. "They aren't Boeing, but neither are you." And the nanotube materials that the elevator people need will do wonders for rocket structure, well before they're good enough for elevators. Nanotubes might be really hazardous for humans and nature too, and I wonder if there's a good way to contain them and/or make them degrade gracefully in nature. If they don't break up, billions of durable nanosticks don't exactly do good to your lungs and other tissues... |
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Elevating Elephants
:James D. Miller thinks that a space elevator proposal would be a good
:2006 campaign issue for the Republicans: : :http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=031406E Would it be built in Ted Steven's district? If not, forget it.... -- A host is a host from coast to & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 |
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Elevating Elephants
Fred J. McCall ) wrote:
: h (Rand Simberg) wrote: : :James D. Miller thinks that a space elevator proposal would be a good : :2006 campaign issue for the Republicans: : : : :http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=031406E : : : o I think so? Not so much. : : : :http://www.transterrestrial.com/arch...11.html#006611 : Silly idea. We can't even get cheap launch services going and someone : thinks this is the next logical step? : I'm left wondering what they're smoking.... ^^^^ Naw, you're defintely a righty... Eric : -- : "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable : man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, : all progress depends on the unreasonable man." : --George Bernard Shaw |
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