
I've been reading about space elevators for years in sci-fi stories. They always seem to get blown up.
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Mon 17 Feb 2003, 13:50,
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"Let's build a fucking huge target for terrorists to attack"
Have you read Chasm City? (Alastair Reynolds) - he am a good writer.
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Mon 17 Feb 2003, 13:52,
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Have you read Chasm City? (Alastair Reynolds) - he am a good writer.

invented the geo-stationary orbit at the same time and teaching millions of physicists (possibly) a thing or two.
and coincidentally helping Rupert Murdoch get very rich
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Mon 17 Feb 2003, 14:00,
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and coincidentally helping Rupert Murdoch get very rich

the Red Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson had one of those - had an awesome description of what happened when it came crashing down.
scary thought.
Saying that, no-ones destroyed the channel tunnel yet which everone said would be the main target of the IRA/whoever the war against terrorism was against at the time.