very interesting NASA space elevator study

I can email you the pdf file, but it's 15 megabytes ...

Ian Woollard wrote:
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> Part I looks excellent.
>
> However, haven't been able to access part II. Every time I try to
> read it with the acrobat reader I get 'could not find Color space cs6'.
>
> I'm using acroread version 3 running under windows 98.
>
> Al Globus wrote:
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> > See http://www.niac.usra.edu/studies/ and find the space elevator
> > studies by Bradly Carl Edwards. There are two. His approach is very
> > clever and is significantly less impossible than any other space
> > elevator concept I've seen. It actually looks almost as possible as
> > landing a man on the moon must have looked in 1961.
>
> --
> - Ian Woollard (ian.woollard@...)
>
> "Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding
> technological civilization?"
> - Gerard O'Neill
>

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Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
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http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

The dinosaurs weren't spacefaring. We are. I don't think that's an
accident. Maybe we are life's taxi to the stars.