From: Avatar Polymorph (avatarpolymorph@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 03:31:37 MDT
I read in space.com that space towers can be lowered as a strand and then
thickened strand by strand by robotic runners travelling up and down
Some info directions on space towers/rotating tethers at
http://www.bjklein.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=&TOPIC_ID=302
http://www.bjklein.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=&TOPIC_ID=467
how about a straight railway between the Earth orbit and moon orbit? With
accelerator pod attached? Materials problems? Gravitational distortion
problems? Or a short linear accelerator? Rotating space tethers can be
powered from Earth's magnetic field... Possibilities in Jupiter's immense
magnetic field?
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