Japanese Scientists Work to Build Space Elevator

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4799369.ece

"Riding silently into the sky, soon she was 100km high, higher even
than the old pioneering rocket planes, the X15s, used to reach. The
sky was already all but black above her, with a twinkling of stars
right at the zenith, the point to which the ribbon, gold-bright in the
sunlight, pointed like an arrow. Looking up that way she could see no
sign of structures further up the ribbon, no sign of the
counterweight. Nothing but the shining beads of more spiders
clambering up this thread to the sky. She suspected she still had not
grasped the scale of the elevator, not remotely."

From Firstborn by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
Publisher: Del Ray

--Mike Jr
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