Mining the Sky & Space Tethers to achieve LEO

--- In spacesettlers@egroups.com, "bill t" wrote:
> >
> To get above the atmosphere. Build a mountain 10km high. This sounds
> ludicrous, but it is feasible. The second method is the one Mike
Combs
> came up with. Use Buckministers giant balloons as support. I like
that
> method myself, but its a lot of ballons (over 3000).

I just wanted to mention that I did not invent this idea. I pinched
it from the "Wildcards" chapter of Gerard O'Neill's "2081: A Hopeful
View of the Human Future". Also, I've corresponded with a
physicist/inventor who claims that he had the idea before O'Neill did.

Rgds,
Mike Combs