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Time to start a new group about: cheap access to space (?)   Message List  
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Re: [space-elevator] Re: Time to start a new group about: cheap access to space (?)

2009/7/12 Craig Holm <craig_holm@...>

> What say you mentats to that?
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_space_elevator

Grotleg !
> CH
>

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-Ian Woollard

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Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:55 pm

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I'm thinking having a new group started called "cheapspaceaccess". This group would discuss any and all technologies, both SE or anything else, for getting...
William
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Jul 10, 2009
8:49 pm

I think this group is ok for tether based designs. Starting a new group is always hard toget people to move over...
Herbert Murray
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Jul 11, 2009
1:33 pm

Why don't we stop playing around with these light weight ideas like elevators and areovators and tethers and such. If we're going to talk about something...
Craig Holm
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Jul 12, 2009
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2009/7/12 Craig Holm <craig_holm@...> ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_space_elevator Grotleg ! ... -- -Ian Woollard "All the world's a stage......
Ian Woollard
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Jul 12, 2009
3:56 pm

... Pretty cool. The main bummer, IMHO, would be the many weeks that such a trip would take. Any vehicle short of a cruise ship would make for a rather long...
Andreas
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Jul 13, 2009
11:59 pm

Personally, I think the traffic here hardly warrants such a step. Andreas...
Andreas
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Jul 13, 2009
11:58 pm

The real solution is to enlarge the charter to include aerovator and other "vators". As for "low cost to space" ideas, there are plenty of other unreasonable...
Jerry Irvine
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Jul 14, 2009
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... If some type of scaled down Aerovator could be build on the "cheap" demonstrating the concept, then one might attract investment money. Instead of...
Herbert Murray
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Jul 24, 2009
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