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1 posted on 11/05/2009 6:00:50 PM PST by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 11/05/2009 6:01:53 PM PST by KevinDavis (Can't Stop the Signal!)
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digital conveyor??


4 posted on 11/05/2009 6:05:36 PM PST by Sybeck1 (Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm.......)
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The Space Elevator, unfortunately, will turn out to be as practical as the DCX.


5 posted on 11/05/2009 6:09:10 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Joe Wilson speaks for me.)
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Paging Mr. Clarke. Mr. Arthur C. Clarke...


7 posted on 11/05/2009 6:13:44 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
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It seems a little silly to award prizes for merely demonstrating the ability to climg a cable, whether it's 3,000 feet long or not. That's the easy part.

The hard part is developing a material that will allow the deployment of a several hundred mile long (or longer) cable, and demonstrating the capability to actually field it. Even a demonstration of a small step in this direction would be far more impressive than a cable-climbing mechanism.

8 posted on 11/05/2009 6:15:41 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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Imagine you’re on the innaugeral Space Elevator Launch Team. It’s a long ride and you get to choose the music played in the capsule.

What “elevator music” will you choose?


13 posted on 11/05/2009 7:10:47 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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