[ExI] Inflatable tower could climb to the edge of space

[spike]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org 
> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of 
> Jeff Davis
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:21 PM
> To: ExI chat list
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Inflatable tower could climb to the edge of space
> 
> 2009/6/9 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:
> > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Jeff Davis 
> <jrd1415 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> MY IDEA.  MY IDEA.  MY ORIGINAL IDEA.  ORIGINATED BY MOI.  
ME, MY, MINE.
> >
> > How comes that being (supposedly) based in the US you did 
> not file for 
> > a patent? :-)
> 
> You've got me there. Pure laziness.  It's not the money (too much
> paperwork) I just want recognition as the guy who thought of it first...
Best, Jeff Davis


Jeff, a patent on something like this would be useless: it is pretty clear
to me that such a project would not be started in the time a patent is
valid.  This is the sort of project that will take decades to construct
methinks.

I have had fun with the idea in terms of compatibility with Keith's
pop-up-and-push notion.  Having a tower reach to 30km would allow us to
launch with very little, if any, payload fairing.  I have some interesting
findings to post a little later this evening if I get a chance.

spike