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February 17, 2006
Space Elevators Get a Lift--sorry.
I've loved the idea of space elevators ever since I first learned about them, many years ago now. I've posted quite a bit about them here since starting this blog nearly four years ago, but naturally all of those old posts are now lost. Take my word for it; I'm a big fan of the idea. At one point I contemplated writing a murder mystery set on a space elevator car, but wound up using a lot of that material in HYDROGEN STEEL, which features an extended section set on a--well, you know what.
So I was chuffed senseless to see the following item pop up in my New Scientist magazine RSS feed today.
Space-elevator tether climbs a mile high
* 15:29 15 February 2006
* NewScientist.com news service
* Kimm Groshong
A slim cable for a space elevator has been built stretching a mile into the sky, enabling robots to scrabble some way up and down the line.
LiftPort Group, a private US company on a quest to build a space elevator by April 2018, stretched the strong carbon ribbon 1 mile (1.6 km) into the sky from the Arizona desert outside Phoenix in January tests, it announced on Monday.
Posted by adrian at February 17, 2006 09:09 PM
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Some things are just too cool. I wonder if they'll have "first class" and "coach"? As long as there's a window, count me in!
Posted by: Charlie at February 22, 2006 05:14 AM
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