Re: Coverage of space elevator conference on msnbc.com

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Aug 24 2002 - 01:37:26 MDT


At 09:28 AM 8/24/02 +0200, 'gene wrote:
>(Nevermind people deliberately sabotaging the beanstalk).
>
>Similiar applies to ribbon being fried by induced currents, or by
>grounding the ionosphere.

I throw in, as usual at this point, JoSH's rather neat and gargantuan, but
not as gargantuan as a Beanstalk, 100 km tall space launch tower:

http://discuss.foresight.org/~josh/tower/construction.html

Damien Broderick



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