Space Elevator: Going up? Way way up
Space Elevator
Watch a video showing how it could be done. The wonders of carbon can make it happen. Materials are often the answer and so they are her; and here’s a practical use for solar panels. Vacations in space will be nice, yes, but once it’s up and running then it becomes the “space freight elevator.” No spacecraft need ever again be built on the surface of Earth. This would be taking a big first step.
Side Note: Folks intersted in this topic might also have an interest in KiTE: hard science fiction with heart
KiTE, by Bill Shears, is a science fiction novel set in Earth orbit. Mason Dash, operator of Kite, the flagship of Earth Orbit Maintenance Department’s debris sweeper fleet, suspects spacejackers on an abandoned space station may be using it as a platform for a terrorist attack on Earth targets. Sheila, his beautiful virtual companion, has been “enhanced” with an experimental free will module. Inside the computer system of Kite a digital uprising is under way. Sheila goes off on her own adventure and finds she’s forced to split her focus between Dash’s situation in the “real world” and an ambitious virtual tyrant who has also taken a fancy to her, and who wants to expand his empire beyond Kite. Meanwhile Dash finds the spacejackers are not what he suspected, maybe worse. And it’s just then that humankind’s first unearthly visitor appears in Earth orbit, who is none too pleased. Earth’s fate hangs in the balance.
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Earth Orbit, Featured, Headline, Technology, space | bshears September 8, 2009
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By Luke, September 10, 2009 @ 2:19 am
This would definitely be worth it.
By Dan, November 13, 2009 @ 7:17 pm
This, along with some sort of fusion or black hole relativistic drive is all we need to start colonizing the galaxy. Then we’ll have somewhere to put Hilary Clinton…