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On 03/03/2011 11:40 AM, Mr Jones wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Adrian
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<div id=":7q">Or, you know, reusable spacecraft, where the
problem is mainly refueling<br>
and servicing them. Ship plants down, ship nutrients up.</div>
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<div>Space elevator anyone?</div>
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We are at at least three orders of magnitude away from bulk material
strong enough to make this viable from the earth's surface. We
also don't have any climbers fast enough to take biological systems
up a geosynchronous elevator without them being fatally irradiated.
It is a problem we are not likely to solve until post-MNT. <br>
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- samantha<br>
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