On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:16:49AM -0700, Chad Cooper wrote:
> I a currently collecting data to suggest the total output of Carbon
> Nanotube (fullerenes) raw material worldwide in the next decade to
> be in excess of 3000 tons. The proposed space elevator (from my past
> post) only requires 20 to
>-Original Message-
>From: Richard Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 11:18 AM
>To: Killer Bs Discussion
>Subject: Re: US-based missiles to have global reach
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>Erik said:
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>> I'd even be willing to bet that no s
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:07:07AM -0700, Chad Cooper wrote:
> Perhaps if you have in mind Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars
> Space Elevator I would agree with you. It is unrealistic, and
> unnecessary. Who needs a big fat cable, when you can build a nanotube
> ribbon a few feet wide and only micro
Erik said:
> I'd even be willing to bet that no serious agency in the world has
> even STARTED actual construction of a space elevator by 2023.
I'd be willing to bet that too. The construction of a space elevator
would require the manufacture of many, many orders of magnitude more
carbon nanotube
>-Original Message-
>From: Erik Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 10:04 AM
>To: Killer Bs Discussion
>Subject: Re: US-based missiles to have global reach
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>On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:29:03AM -0700, Chad Cooper wrote:
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:29:03AM -0700, Chad Cooper wrote:
> We may very well have a Space Elevator by then. Then it would be cheap
If by "then" you mean we are likely to have a space elevator by 2023,
then you are mistaken. I will bet you any amount of money you care to
name that we won't. The
>-Original Message-
>From: Robert Seeberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 7:30 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: US-based missiles to have global reach
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>http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,988612,00.html
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>Allies to become less important as new gen
I think I prefer your subject line to the one under which the same article
was posted on another list I'm on:
"America to build super weapons, To Rule the World"
At 09:29 PM 7/1/03 -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,988612,00.html
Allies to become less
At 04:31 AM 7/2/03 +0100, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 1 Jul 2003 at 21:29, Robert Seeberger wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,988612,00.html
>
> Allies to become less important as new generation of weapons enables
> America to strike anywhere from its own territory
I'd point out t
On 1 Jul 2003 at 21:29, Robert Seeberger wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,988612,00.html
>
> Allies to become less important as new generation of weapons enables
> America to strike anywhere from its own territory
I'd point out that technically speaking, it's possible for the
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