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

Jeff Davis jrd1415 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 22:08:58 UTC 2009


MY IDEA.  MY IDEA.  MY ORIGINAL IDEA.  ORIGINATED BY MOI.  ME, MY, MINE.

Let me remind you all that this is the idea I have been peddling here,
howsobeit feebly, for going on eight years.

Best, Jeff Davis

 "Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
                         Ray Charles

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Dave Sill<sparge at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227117.000-inflatable-tower-could-climb-to-the-edge-of-space.html
>
> "A GIANT inflatable tower could carry people to the edge of space
> without the need for a rocket, and could be completed much sooner than
> a cable-based space elevator, its proponents claim.
>
> Inflatable pneumatic modules already used in some spacecraft could be
> assembled into a 15-kilometre-high tower, say Brendan Quine, Raj Seth
> and George Zhu at York University in Toronto, Canada, writing in Acta
> Astronautica (DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.02.018). If built from a
> suitable mountain top it could reach an altitude of around 20
> kilometres, where it could be used for atmospheric research, tourism,
> telecoms or launching spacecraft."
>
> -Dave
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