[extropy-chat] Forbes Magazine on Robotics

Michael Anissimov michaelanissimov at gmail.com
Sun Aug 20 23:13:07 UTC 2006


Here is a better alternative to the classic space elevator vision:

http://discuss.foresight.org/~josh/tower/tower.html

Or:

http://www.launchloop.com/

It's obvious that rockets won't work for serious space exploration,
but then neither will space elevators.  We will need to look towards
other solutions, many of which aren't very fleshed out at the present
time.


-- 
Michael Anissimov
Lifeboat Foundation      http://lifeboat.com
http://acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog



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