From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 01:51:41 MDT
One aspect of space elevators everybody seems to ignore (mostly because
they are engineering exercises right now and not serious proposals) is
liability. While the fall of a broken elevator might not be a
super-disaster, so many people would consider themselves threatened that
the insurance demands would be extreme. NIMBY might be the greatest
problem, not tensile strength.
On the other hand, if you have the elevator you have just cornered the
satelite telecom market of a third of the Earth...
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