From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 03:03:16 MDT
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Max More wrote:
>within 25 years. Caveat: I haven't really sat down and thought carefully
>through plausible scenarios for the development of the space elevator. As
>for the singularity, I find that beast far more amorphous and blurred than
>most here. Still, I would have to say that a space elevator would be
>constructed before we could say we were in or entering a singularity.
I found this report (16 MB file), a pretty detailed one:
http://www.niac.usra.edu/studies/files/final_report/pdf/472Edwards.pdf
It doesn't look like very advanced technology, just difficult and
expensive. But these guys seem to have a lot of solutions in their head.
Alfio
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