Cool, I didn't realize that Clarke's vision was so specific. He was the one who suggested a belt of geosynchronous communications satellites, too, wasn't he? (Or was that Heinlein?)
Great, so the terrorists would have a several-mile-long razor blade they could knock over on top of stuff. Reassuring. ;->
I first read about the elevator idea in ANALOG magazine about 40 years ago. I do wish there was a way to keep governments out of the project & forbid military payloads.
Yes, me too, but the only way I see anything like that happening is the worldwide adoption of anarcho-syndicalism. Which I don't see happening in our lifetimes (and I'm not sure I'd promote such an idea) barring major economic collapse.
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Date: 2003-09-17 03:11 pm (UTC)Great, so the terrorists would have a several-mile-long razor blade they could knock over on top of stuff. Reassuring. ;->
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Date: 2003-09-17 06:03 pm (UTC)All I can think about is Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.