Mile High Club
Some good news on the space exploration front:
It's a small victory, but it's at least as important as Robert Goddard's research eighty years ago.
Space elevators are the technology that will eventually open up space to private enterprise in a way which will make the American westward expansion of the 19th century look like a carnival sideshow. The best way to progress even more rapidly and efficiently, of course, is to get NASA and their bureaucratic crust out of the loop entirely. Government oversight is anathema when it comes to efficiency in exploration; profit drives expansion.
A slim cable for a space elevator has been built stretching a mile into the sky, enabling robots to scrabble some way up and down the line.
LiftPort Group, a private US company on a quest to build a space elevator by April 2018, stretched the strong carbon ribbon 1 mile (1.6 km) into the sky from the Arizona desert outside Phoenix in January tests, it announced on Monday.
It's a small victory, but it's at least as important as Robert Goddard's research eighty years ago.
Space elevators are the technology that will eventually open up space to private enterprise in a way which will make the American westward expansion of the 19th century look like a carnival sideshow. The best way to progress even more rapidly and efficiently, of course, is to get NASA and their bureaucratic crust out of the loop entirely. Government oversight is anathema when it comes to efficiency in exploration; profit drives expansion.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 22:45
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