To: GeronL
Or the Toynbee Convector?
Seriously, if they can figure out how to bond this (...is it warpable, can it be woven instead of just bonding to a substrate?), then perhaps we can start to look seriously at the Space Elevator. Now starting THAT project would be a worthy goal for W in his second term.
7 posted on
10/22/2004 12:36:55 AM PDT by
Gondring
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To: Gondring
I doubt the planning of that would even start in 4 years. Heck, they haven't even studied the idea enough and won't over the next 4.
10 posted on
10/22/2004 1:13:06 AM PDT by
GeronL
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To: Gondring
...then perhaps we can start to look seriously at the Space Elevator. Now starting THAT project would be a worthy goal for W in his second term.
That would just be another high tech thingy for the produce-nothing, worth-nothing, Muslim terrorists to blow up.
12 posted on
10/22/2004 1:22:44 AM PDT by
broadsword
(Weren't there a couple of giant Buddhist statues in Afghanistan? What happened to them?)
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