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I read this story several years ago in Wired magazine (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/02/57536 http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news
by raheemm 18y ago
I read this story several years ago in Wired magazine (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/02/57536 http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/02/57536). I think I read it again in 05 in some other magazine. Most of them like this one, at first says how amazing it'll be to ride, then talks about how hard it'll be to build, throws something about carbon nano tubes and some cool diagrams.
Makes me wonder whether they are just recycling old content or if their has been real progress. (I went to the site of the company that is referenced in the Wired article to be building the space lift and its just spam!)
- josefresco 18y agoIt's still very 'gee-wiz' science, I think the longest carbon nano tubes in ribbon form are only measured in inches. See http://www.spaceward.org/ http://www.spaceward.org/ for more information, or search "space elevator competition".
- hugh 18y agoThe even-bigger problem, as I understand it, is that the nanotubes don't just have to be 30,000 km long, they also have to be more-or-less defect free.