2008SEC - Day 1 - Keynote Address
July 18th, 2008
The conference started off with the keynote address by Dr. Bradley C. Edwards. Dr. Edwards summarized developments of how we got to where we are today in Space Elevator development and things that hopefully / should happen in the near future. A few pictures:
Here is Dr. Edwards in front of his opening slide.
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Dr. Edwards with another slide.
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THIS is interesting. There is now a study being done by Sotheby’s International to see if a Space Elevator ‘ride’ might be viable. People who have visited DisneyWorld or MGM and have been on their various theme rides (riding through asteroids or whatever) know that something like this can be made very realistic. This ‘ride’ could be combined with an audience-viewable research center and the profits of all this could go to real Space Elevator research. This is a really cool idea and I hope it comes to fruition. I’ll keep you all posted.
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[…] a ride on a Space Elevator. I think this is a fabulous idea (and blogged about it earlier, here). This facility would also be doing research into carbon nanotubes in a facility which could be […]
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