Re: Coverage of space elevator conference on msnbc.com

From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 02:46:07 MDT


On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Damien Broderick wrote:

> You're in near vacuum. Doesn't that count for anything? As I recall, JoSH
> proposes a 10 g linear accelerator at the top.

Right, that's why it's 300 km long. Have you looked at the sketch, Spike?
This thing does make sense, it's just it's made from almost-unobtainium.



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