[extropy-chat] Glenn Fishbine on the space elevator

[Brett Paatsch]

Glenn Fishbine author of  _The Investor's Guide to_Nanotechnology_
And_Micromachines_  (pub 2002. Wiley: Finance) put together a 
critical article on the space elevator concept. 

Its a little dated. There are carbon nanotubes longer than 1mm now,
but some of the engineering and other challenges may still be of 
interest even if to just to see if they can be overcome. 

heres a link to the pdf
http://www.glennfishbine.com/articles/roping_the_stars.pdf

Regards,
Brett