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Space Elevators Summary
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The murky views which some scientists advocate as to the inevitable end of every living thing on Earth . . . should not be regarded as axiomatic. The finer part of mankind will, in all likelihood, never perish—they will migrate from sun to sun...
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A space elevator is a proposed megastructure designed to transport material from a celestial body's surface into space. The term most often refers to a structure that reaches from the surface of the Earth to geosynchronous orbit (GSO) and a counter-mass...


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The State Journal
ISR Looks at Building an Elevator to Space
08/29/2003: 798 words, approx. 3 pages
Why walk a stairway to the heavens when you can just take an elevator? The Institute for Scientific Research (ISR), a technological research organization in Fairmont, is predicting such a concept could go from implausible science fiction to costeffective reality in about 15...
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Hanging by a thread. (Bulletins).(space elevators)
11/01/2002: 599 words, approx. 2 pages
AT THE BEGINING OF Roald Dahl's book Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Charlie takes an elevator ride through the roof of his recently inherited Wonka chocolate factory and into deep space. Brad Edwards's space elevator plans aren't nearly so ambitious. His elevator...
 


 

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