| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Plaything48,)
It seems more than likely that this will happen since its just got endorsement from Bush, and whatever quibbles you've got about the impracticalities of it and so on, it wont make much difference, because you'd be going head to head against a team of 70 great scientists. If you've got broadband you can download an animation(approx. 5mb) of the elevator.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
That Dubya has endorsed something tends to make me suspect it. And in the case of Dubya's moon and Mars initiative, I think it pretty clear that it's campaign twaddle with no serious thought to doing anything extensive or expensive.
As to a geosynchronous elevator, that idea has been around for a while. Although there are practical reasons why such a thing would be desirable, there are also practical obstacles, especially involving materials science: basically, humans don't yet have materials that could support their own weight, much less haul freight, in a structure sufficiently long. |