We've secured a really profitable deal with a company based in Malta. It was close held but since someone on that end spilled the beans .. Glad to see the home...
To whom it may concern, I am an A level physics student and am doing a research essay on why the space elevator would be feasible and reasons (backed with...
Hello One and All, Are there any good animated films in MPEG, AVI, or Quick Time format depicting the construction and operation of a Space Elevator? Thanks...
That's funny I live in Malta and I haven't heard anything. This is indeed great news. Does this mean I get a free ride into space. If you need a volunteer- I'm...
From: http://www.tethers.com/papers/MASTJPC2003Paper.pdf Tethers Unlimited, Inc (TUI) and Stanford University's Space Systems Development Laboratory(SSDL) are...
Edward's ISR report would be a good place to start: http://www.isr.us/Downloads/niac_pdf/introandacknowledgments.html Also The NASA report in the file section...
I would check: http://www.spaceelevatorblog.com/, in particular the Reference links. Ted Semon has done a good job researching and compiling what is available...
Mohammed: Here a few links to help you out. http://www.strangehorizons.com/2003/20030714/orbital_railroads.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator ...
This may not seem to pertain to SE. But the defense of SE from Naval and Space perspective needs to be work out. In turn that will help determine the correct...
Lamentably, there is no way to defend it. It is far too long and far too flimsy. In a message dated 4/23/2007 1:27:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time, ...
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... Depends on what you mean by defense. If it comes down to worst case - talking about explosions, bombs and mayhem here - nothing can be defended against....
The trouble I've always heard associated with guns is fact that the full impulse energy has to be delivered at the start and the speed you have to be...
FROM http://www.tethers.com/MAST_Blog.html Over the last couple of days we have been working to fine-tune the operating mode of Gadget to bring its battery...
If one believes "Necessity is the mother of invention", then one has to believe LiftPort, or more specifically Michael Liane is reinventing LiftPort from a...
LiftPort http://www.liftport.com/ has a Liftoff Clock that reads T- 24 YEARS! I'm sorry, but I am in my 50's and not in the best of health. I would like to...
did you guys see this? http://www.netcomposites.com/news.asp?4357 ... Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ...
Hello Herbert, Recently Liftport forged a really profitable deal with a company based in Malta for the construction of an aerial tramway. It was close held...
I'm sorry to have to break this to you Alex, but this was an April Fool's joke. Note the name of the material - Lirpa Loof - and spell it backwards. ...
This week I posted this request on the NSS group for SE. I have decide to open up to a bigger audience. Post follows: I talked to Michael Laine this week about...
What Ed is said very true. The request for volunteer help is to help LiftPort bounce back. Two key areas that Liftport will focus on: Thier ballon projects: ...
... Guys, My post on the LiftPort blog was a link and block quote from an article written on April 1. The give away is "The new super cable, known as ’Lirpa...
Hello Brian, I fell for that April's Fool joke hook line and sinker. Next time I should read such postings more carefully and with a critical eye. I firmly...
Just a quick note ************* LiveScience's Image of the Day Friday May 11, 2007 Record-Breaking Nanotubes "Materials scientists have grown 2-centimeter-long...
Please read my evaluation on the feasibility of space elevators here: http://www.draaisma.net/space-tourism/moon_base_landing.php Now, I know that I'm not...
Niclas, Space elevators are under tension, not compression, so they need only the tensile strength that a single cable can provide. This is because the other...
... I myself don't call people who disagree cranks or unpopular or arrogant. Everyone has a valid opinion and honest disagreement leads to better discourse and...
... Your two paragraphs on the space elevator prove beyond reasonable doubt that you have no idea what you are talking about and have made no effort to...
The Space Elevator will be very difficult to built, to be sure, but it is probably not impossible. "The Difficult, we do immediately. The Impossible takes a ...