Space Elevator Pioneers Yuri Artsutanov and Jerome Pearson to Appear

Business Wire ^ | 07/26/10

[KevinDavis]

REDMOND, Wash. & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC), an independent coalition designed to promote outreach and foster research relating to the construction of an Elevator to Space, announced today that Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov and American engineer Jerome Pearson, pioneers of the modern Space Elevator concept, will appear at the 2010 Space Elevator Conference.

[KevinDavis]

Going up??

[KevinDavis]

[bill1952]

Gee. This idea must have some legs.
I have SciFi from 35 years ago on my shelves that postulate this very concept.

I do not believe that it can be done with current technology & materials.

[SunkenCiv]

The elevator called me up.
She said you better start making sense.
The stone was bleeding, whirling in the waltz.
I went to see her majesty. The court had no suspense.
She said, “Dream dreams the dreamer.”
I said it’s not my fault.

[Television, “The Dream’s Dream”, by Tom Verlaine]

[SunkenCiv]

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[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[org.whodat]

So we have black holes to throw tax payers money in, the reverse of that would be!!!!

It's best to leave some sci-fiction in the books.

[Leo Carpathian]

aaaand this elavatory would take idiots to Zero liebary???

[saundby]

Look out! Here comes the ISS!!!

PRANGG-NG-NGGG!

[Captain Beyond]

Thanks for the links. I have read a bunch of sci-fi books that use the space elevator in their plots. Some interesting but others really take a lot of liberties with the physics of actually doing it. I understand they are fiction but the topic is always interesting to see how they over come some of the problems. All in all some creative ways of dealing with space travel come out of them.

[colorado tanker]

Floor 748,792; cafeteria, hotel, gamma rays . . . .

[SunkenCiv]

I’m not in the camp that thinks this can even work; either the whole machine will be pulled apart, or will all end up bunched up at or a little below geostationary orbit. And it has nothing to do with the strength of the materials. However, there’s also a topic (I think it was in that last) regarding the strongest material known, nanofibers, and how they aren’t strong enough (assuming such a machine were possible in the first place). I was also amused by the fact that the nanotubes are such good conductors, you know what that would mean to one of these hypothetical constructs...