Wall Street Journal Article on the Space Elevator
Good article on the Space Elevator today in the WSJ (paid subscription required to see full article). If you have access to the article, take a look. It does a very nice job describing the concepts. My favorite quote describes the nanotube ribbon that reaches from earth to space:
The ribbon would weigh 800 tons, or about 26 pounds per mile. Were it to break, the top segment would float away into space while the bottom would fall back to earth. Nothing you want to be on hand to see, of course, "but nothing that would threaten the planet...."
That's a relief. Two good information sources on the space elevator:
- http://www.spaceelevator.com/ - reference site and blog for people interested in the space elevator.
- http://www.spaceelevatorblog.com - the official blog of the space elevator contest. Has a lot of information on space elevator concepts and technologies.
I hate it when the WSJ restricts access to their articles.
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