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Space Elevators: The Time for Laughing is Over
Author: David K. Pullen
 Added: 05/15/2003
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 “The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.”

 -Arthur C. Clarke

           Science Fiction Writer

“This is no longer science fiction. We came out of the workshop saying, ‘We may very well be able to do this.’”

 -David Smitherman: 2000

           NASA/Marshall’s Advanced

           Projects Office

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Poster: John
Added: -0/5-/2003

Possible to the "material that must bear it's own weight" problem. One, high-durability "balloons" attached at strategic points along the tether. Two, a series of perpetual floating platforms that can "hand-off" the item to be taken to space. Third, a combination of the two could be imagined as well.

I would love to read reports that discuss scientific thinking on these ideas.
Poster: Dennis Cutter
Added: -0/5-/2003

Here's an artical about creating very long Nanotubes. Looks like just a matter of time before we get foot long tubes. With the right glues and faprication methodes these could be made into bundles of rope like meterial used for the space teather concept.
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