http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/25/MNGM4CEAPG1.DTL&
Space Geeks Get Some Kindly Handling from the San Francisco Press
*I never quite believed in old-school steely "space elevators,"
but a space RIBBON, as described in this article...
I'm tempted to believe there's something to that notion.
*It would be particularly oxymoronic and poetic
if the killer app for ultra-teensy carbon "nano" tubes was
the biggest, longest object ever built by humankind.
*When a rocket blows up on the pad, there's hell to
pay, but imagine this sucker breaking. Sixty
thousand miles of falling ribbon! Would it fall
to the anchor point, or would Coriolis force
wrap it 'round the earth? What an image!
Where's Larry Niven when we need him?
http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/watch/elevator/build.htm
How to beanstalk right up there, sorta, kinda
