I can't seem to get a clear picture on this: Are Edwards and Laine working on separate projects? Did they part ways negatively? When I listen to interviews...
... Yes ... Somewhat - differences of vision, I think. ... No, just plain old competition I think. There doesn't have to be just one space elevator company... ...
... The quick version: Dr. Edwards was running Highlift with funds from NIAC. Highlift's charter was to explore scientific and commercial aspects of the space...
The REAL truth: Edwards and Laine are furiously ironing out all of the kinks in the space elevator one night in a bar. Nanotubes, drive-train, waste heat...
A later post also suggested that engineering in escape and recovery mechanisms is not done because the costs (in terms of money/redesign and payload capacity)...
On couple of occasions I have talked to both Brad Edwards and Michael Laine. Brian's version on events is basically correct. Liftport is taking a more of a...
... Really? What about: 1. A 2 to 5 order of magnitude reduction in launch costs. 2. No upper limit to the size of the payload. 3. A 3 order of magnitude...
... It seems to me that there are some people in this group (and I'm NOT pointing fingers at the author of this particular message that I chose to respond to)...
... Well, what are you doing about it then? Vern McGeorge ... -- -Ian Woollard Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - Leonardo "Communism" is deprecated....
... A quibble: you can actually launch about every hour or so, if your climbers are tiny. If a climber must be as large as the ribbon will allow, you can...
... the ... the ... So she asks, "One of you guys wanna buy me a drink?" Laine clutches a handful of business cards and throws them at Edwards, ninja-star...
... I've long since driven most of my friends crazy, I have written a space elevator novel that I am shopping around, I've written a space elevator article...
... Before we go to far here, there are actually TWO factors that have to be considered; Not just launch costs but launch RATES are important. The major...
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Jul 6, 2005 1:31 am
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... SURE your not ;o) ... Well, in the 'case' of the poster of the quoted message, your totally wrong. Do I think the SE can't be done? Of course not, lack of...
RanulfC@...
Jul 10, 2005 11:35 pm
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... drastically reduce the cost of rocket production and launches. We never bothered because it was never an 'market' issue nor a priority for anyone. It has...
These are his CNT threads. They aren't pure CNT, they have a graphite matrix if I remember correctly. In any case, the temperature I was giving was for the...
... An excellent question, not sure if it was rethorical or not, but I'll answer anyways, even though it is way out of date. So you start reeling in ribbon at...
... Yes, and a more accurate description would be: "One team that isolated a single 4cm single-walled nanotube from among many many much shorter ones" and ...
Well, if we still don't have "strong-as-steel" CNTs (as indicated by Monte Davis :o) we can still use what we have for a nice rotovator. The 'snatching' ...
RanulfC@...
Jul 13, 2005 12:18 am
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... among ... lengths." ... polymer ... or ... In the interviews I've seen of the team that created the 4-cm long tubes they seem to feel the process can be...
... I'm well aware of the difference. I have argued this same line, (usually unsucessfully :o) with those who are so SURE that Burt has broken open the space ...
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Jul 13, 2005 2:02 am
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... I'm pretty sanguine about the strength of long SWNTs. Vanishingly low defect rates are the "easy" part; once a single pentagon or heptagon forms, the tube...
... Of course :o) The problem with 'lab' products is everyone has a 'pet' name for something that they WANT adapted as standard. You usually don't get that ...
RanulfC@...
Jul 13, 2005 10:47 pm
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QUESTIONING MED-LARGE ROCKET LAUNCHES BEING ROUTINE? THAT IS WITH CURRENT STATE OF THE ART IN LAUNCH MOTOR TECHNOLOGY "....Launch CAN be routine, AND low...
The average passenger jet aircraft flys at 600 mph (Mach 0.8) The SST flew at Apprx 1500 mph at operated at a lost ( Mach 2.0 ) To fly to LEO is 17,500 mph...
... Still unanswered after 40 years. Some say "technology X we haven't yet given a chance." Some say "existing technology with a different business model." ...
Technology X appears to be 'Hybrid Propulsion', a variant of solid rocket booster technology that will be flying in 2007 regularly for Virgin Galactic. I doubt...
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