At answers.Yahoo.com, a question is posted about the potential usefulness of a Space Elevator.  Several people weigh in with their ideas.

Dennis Byrne, a columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, also has his own blog.  In a posting yesterday, he comments on how the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal reported the story of West Virginia Democratic congressman Alan Mollohand and how he’s funded numerous non-profits with taxpayer dollars.  One of the non-profits he’s funded is the Institute for Scientific Research (ISR) and, earlier today, I noted a story from another blogger stating that some of the money has been earmarked for Space Elevator development.

I think this story has legs and we’re going to be hearing more about it soon…

Ashwin Nanjappa at LiveJournal writes approvingly of the NASA Centennial Challenges.  Everyone seems in favor of them…

In the National Center Blog, Amy Ridenour points out that Rep. Alan Mollohan of West Virginia has earmarked Federal Funds to be given to the Institute for Scientific Research (ISR) for research into the construction of the Space Elevator.  She’s “anti-earmark” and is unhappy about this.

The Amygdala blog opines about NASA’s Centennial Challenges.

The Space Elevator concept must be gaining traction – it’s now getting politicized.  Some weeks ago, James Miller, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Smith College, proposed in his article “Elevating Elephants”, that the Republicans should adopt a campaign plank in support of a Space Elevator.  Today at DailyKos, ManFromMiddletown posted an article that discussed energy alternatives and talked in favorable terms about the problems that a Space Elevator could solve.  The author refers to the Miller article as coming from the “Dark Side”.  He mentions LiftPort and believes that the Space Elevator should be built by an International Coalition.

Over at Live Journal, Unnamed puts forward his idea on how to colonize space, with Space Elevators playing a central role.

Catnmus opines about using the Space Elevator to hoist nuclear waste into space. 

At techdirt.com, Joe comments on the NASA Centennial Challenge competitions.

Our neighbors to the north lay claim to the Space Elevator.  Pretty cheeky, eh?  Of course, to paraphrase Robert Heinlein, the laws of physics work for everyone, not just Americans…

Today’s LiftPort blog and Brian Dunbar’s personal blog both mention this one.  Many thanks.

Brad Guth speculates that a Lunar Space Elevator may be better than “accomplishing moon landings via mascon roller coaster.”  At least that’s what I think he’s saying…

One Big Mutation also comments on the NY Times story about the NASA Centennial Challenges. This exact same blog entry can also be found at Museum of Mahem, here, in this blog entry from Circle of Tripe, in this blog entry from Darn Tasty and in many others. No, I don’t know why other than the fact that someone seems to have too much time on their hand.

The Cool Blue Blog comments on the NASA Centennial Challenges.

LogicVersusBlog talks about the Space Elevator here.

Little known dangers of Space Elevator deployment are discussed here.  Once you read this, you will probably never look at the Horse Head Nebula in the same way again.

Liftport Blog comment on the recently published paper covering the strength maps of carbon nanotubes.

The Starclimber team discusses the new robotics controller they’ve developed in their latest blog post.

A member of the Starclimber team will be giving a presentation on space elevators and the Starclimber project to the Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers club.

The Starclimber team discusses testing the alignment of their parabolic reflector.

The Starclimber team discusses roughing out their parabolic trough reflector and mentions that they will not be ready for their demo until sometime in April.

The Spacescraper blog weighs in on how a Space Elevator will promote the construction of a Spacescraper.

The antiwar blog has its own opinion about the proposal to add a plank in support of building a space elevator to the Republican 2006 campaign.

At the mensnewsdaily.com blog, Karl Lembke references the proposal for the Republicans to add a plank to their 2006 campaign in support of building a space elevator.  Karl notes that Jerry Pournelle has opined that for the cost of the first year’s war in Iraq, the US could have built and launched a solar-power satellite system.

Over at the QandO blog, Dale Franks writes skeptically about the proposal that the Republicans add a plank to their 2006 campaign in support of building a space elevator.  Many comments, pro & con, were generated by this post.

Gizmodo says that a Space Elevator would be sexy.

The Starclimber team discusses progress and hopes to have their first demo ready at the end of March.

The Starclimber team considers looking for new worlds to conquer once this years Space Elevator competition is completed.

The ColonyWorlds blog weighs in, favorably, on the concept of a Space Elevator and the most recent test from LiftPort.