Re: Beanstalk sounds cooler
From: E.R. (economic_refugee_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/30/04
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Date: 30 Aug 2004 08:40:05 -0700
"Morituri-Max" <newage@sendarico.net> wrote in message news:<44yYc.40842$Jn5.32558@fe1.texas.rr.com>...
> aSkeptic wrote:
> > I hate to rain on everyone's space elevator dream..
> >
> > Until a fiber with the required tensile strength can be produced in
> > the required lenghts it will never happen. When this amazing new
> > material becomes a proven technology then things like space elevators
> > might someday work.
>
> I like the term "beanstalk" better.. surprised nobody has mentioned that word
> since that is basically what it is, and has been in and out of sci-fi lo these
> many years.
Beanstalk seems to have not caught on in the space elevator community.
Space Elevator sounds clunky and giggle-inducing but the consensus
(or lack therof) seems to be that a stationary ground-to-orbit tether
shall be called 'space elevator'.
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