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# space elevator
I've been reading about space elevators for years in sci-fi stories. They always seem to get blown up.
(, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 13:50, archived)
# they do, don't they
"Let's build a fucking huge target for terrorists to attack"

Have you read Chasm City? (Alastair Reynolds) - he am a good writer.
(, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 13:52, archived)
# Twas
Arthur C Clarke's invention.
(, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 13:54, archived)
# He
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
(, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 14:00, archived)
# hmm

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.
(, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 14:01, archived)