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Thread ID: 9069 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-08-16
2003-08-16 04:25 | User Profile
The following is from [url=http://www.spacedaily.com/news/materials-03w.html]http://www.spacedaily.com/news/materials-03w.html[/url]
Space Elevators Maybe Closer To Reality Than Imagined by Richard Perry Los Angeles - Jul 22, 2003 Space elevators have an image problem, mainly due to two prominent science fiction novels. They appear either ungainly impossible, or so potentially dangerous to the planet itself you would never dream of building one. With the science now indicating that they are potentially near-term transport systems, it's time to review the fiction in relation to the possible reality. Three publications by Pearson in 1975/6/7 and work done by Moravec and published in the Journal of the Astronautical Sciences in 1977 were enough to prompt Arthur C Clarke to write "The Fountains of Paradise" and Charles Sheffield "The Web Between the Worlds" - both published in 1979.
Complete article is at [url=http://www.spacedaily.com/news/materials-03w.html]http://www.spacedaily.com/news/materials-03w.html[/url]
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