{"id":1185,"date":"2009-04-13T00:21:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T05:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2009-04-13T00:21:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T05:21:26","slug":"space-elevator-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"Space Elevator Miscellany…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a few Space Elevator related items which have showed up in the Search Engines over the past several days…<\/p>\n

Google, a company which has been rumored to be interested in building a Space Elevator, has formed a new venture entitled Google Ventures<\/a>.\u00a0 When asked by Erick Schonfeld<\/a> about their interest in Space Elevators, Bill Maris (one of the fund managers) had this to say;<\/p>\n

\u201cShow me one that works,\u201d retorts Maris, \u201cand I will invest in it.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That will be difficult, of course, until someone actually builds one.\u00a0 Over at Darnell Clayton’s most excellent Colony Worlds website, Darnell had this to say<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“Perhaps the newly founded International Space Elevator Consortium<\/a> could help convince Google that a space elevator is something worth investing in, as gaining the support from a public company could go a long ways towards convincing the masses that this long term project is indeed viable.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good idea, Darnell.\u00a0 We’ll follow up…<\/p>\n

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I found this article<\/a> by James Pinkerton of the New America Foundation<\/a>.\u00a0 In it he talks about how investing in Space exploration would be an excellent economic driver for the US.\u00a0 He also discusses the China-India Space race (an issue that I’ve opined on before as a possible impetus to get India to partner up with Dubai and build a Space Elevator) and additionally talks about building a Space Elevator ourselves.\u00a0 To wit;<\/p>\n

And so, for example, if America were to succeed in building a \u2013in its essence a 22,000-mile cable, operating like a pulley, dangling down from a stationary satellite, a concept first put forth in the late 19th century\u2013that would be a major driver for economic growth. Japan has plans for just such a space elevator; aren\u2019t we getting a little tired of losing high-tech economic competitions to the Japanese?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ll, it’s a 60,000 mile long cable, but I like the sentiment…<\/p>\n

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Finally if you’re a fan of Halo 3<\/a>, they’ve released the “Mythic Map Pack<\/em>“, a new set of battlegrounds.\u00a0 The “Orbital<\/em>” map is contained within a Space Elevator.\u00a0 From the Halopedia<\/a> website;<\/p>\n

Orbital takes place inside the docking-station for Quito Space Tether<\/a>, a Space Elevator<\/a> that transports cargo and people in and out of the Earths<\/a> atmosphere easily…<\/em><\/p>\n

The map is located on an “empty UNSC<\/a> space platform”[3]<\/a><\/sup>, more specifically, the station atop the Quito Space Tether. The map contains plaques dedicated to Doctors Tobias Fleming Shaw<\/a> and Wallace Fujikawa<\/a>, the creators of the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine<\/a>, the map also contains a lot of aesthetical elements such as windows showing the Earth, electronic devices like display screens, escalators, and even a video phone. Overall the map has a feel of advanced technology.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are several videos of Orbital on YouTube – I thought this one was the best;<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uy23_gkc32M[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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