Had not heard it call that. Its a cool concept though, Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven and others have used these concepts a lot in their fiction.
larry > > -----Original Message----- >> From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:35 PM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: RE: space shuttle columbia accident >> >> >> A modified version of the concept is a rotating skyhook - it spins in >> space coming just within the atmosphere and meets up with the >> vehicle, and then flings it into orbit like a giant sling. > >That's the tethered relay system I was talking about. Basically you can >have a series of these spinning satellites that can fling the payload >higher and higher. The extension is actually setting up relays at the >LaGrange points and the moon - that way we could cheaply (if slowly) >pass material to and from the moon (and the future space stations >located at the LaGrange points). > >Scientific American has a good article about it here: > >http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000EE636-99E3-1CB9-B4A8809EC5 >88EEDF&pageNumber=1&catID=9 > >(As an aside - I'm REALLY loving the fact that Scientific America has >made it's article archive available online. I wish more mags would do >this.) > >Jim Davis > >> larry >> >> > > >> >> Actually, NASA has budgeted a nice chunk of cash for applied >> >> research into this. Apparently the required material science >> >> exists. >> > >> >Last I remember one of the best candidates was actually synthetic >> >spider-web. Much stronger and more resilent than steel. Very cool >> >stuff. >> > >> >Of course material costs are still prohibitive. Another option is a >> >tethered relay system. Some work's been done in that direction as >> >well. >> > >> >Jim Davis >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >> Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 1:10 PM >> >> To: CF-Community >> >> Subject: RE: space shuttle columbia accident >> >> >> >> >> >> 0_0 >> >> >> >> Oh well now that's just ridiculous. >> >> Superman I could understand but geez...skyhook.. >> >> Guffaw! >> >> >> >> >> > >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
