Links,
News, Updates etc.
Background:
Introduction Aug
2010 news report. Read about Bradley
Edwards who wants to build a space elevator sooner rather
than later, or Watch
his video
and read his report.
Browse the space
elevator blog and spaceward
and read Arthur
C Clarke's essay on the subject. Watch the development of
carbon nanotubes (for making the cable) at the Carbon
Nanotube Site.
Videos: Since 2004, there
has
been an
annual contest for the fastest climber, a vital part of the
project. There are plenty of other videos on Youtube (search for Space
Elevator).
Books: To get you
started,
Arthur C Clarke's novel The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
is a fun read and introduces the concept of the space elevator
well. Recommended. His more recent novel Firstborn: A Time
Odyssey Book Three by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
(2008) has a chapter giving an account of a ride up a space
elevator near the beginning.
Other links I enjoyed: news item
Jan 09 . . . second
version
. . . and
again Jan 2009 . . . International
Space Elevator Consortium . . . Liftport
Group . . . Rotation
system
. . . 2009
games . . . and not least spaceelevatorgames.org
. A
space elevator on Mars? contains three nice images. Read Japanese
plans to build a space elevator (2009). Maybe Australia might host
a docking platform . Might the cable pose a possible light
pollution problem? Interesting discussion. Do your own search
on the web, and please let me know of interesting sites you find -
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