"Neil deGrasse Tyson visits the Lift$Port Group in Bremerton, Washington. The entrepreneurs and engineers at LiftPort think space elevators aren’t just a wild idea; they’ve staked their corporati

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"I have run a few simulations of a space elevator breaking. This page summarizes some results, and gives you access to animations." Realistic disaster scenarios - not quite as disastrous as

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"I ran into Brian Dunbar of the Liftport Company in the comments section over at Murdoc Online, and asked him if he’d do an interview." This is part one thereof.

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Questions and answers about space elevators with Bradley Edwards.

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"Our goal is to bring clean energy to planet Earth using the abundant resources of space & encourage sustainable energy supplies like those available in space." Interesting stuff.

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"Scientists from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a unique space elevator for lunar and Martian missions." More of a tethered slingshot, but sti

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"For a space elevator travelling at the current proposed speed of 200 kilometres per hour, however, passengers might spend half a week in the belts. That would hit them with 200 times the radiati

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"The Space Elevator games just finished up today and it was quite an event. In this post I would like to summarize the games, both the results and the behind the scenes, what it implies and what

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"With $400,000 in NASA-provided prize money at stake, 16 teams have gathered this week in Las Cruces, New Mexico, for the second annual Space Elevator Games as part of the X Prize Cup..." Go

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"Running the Line is a new book edited by Brad Edwards and David Raitt. The book is a result of the second Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition ... with the theme of Space El

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" ... the road map to space elevator development, outlining what tests and demonstrations need to be done before we can build the first SE." Liftport lays out the agenda. Go for it, guys!

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"A radically different way to reach outer space -- the space elevator -- may finally be getting off the ground floor thanks to recent huge advances in technology." CNN gets on the space elev

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"Each of the groups that will gather in New Mexico is competing to win a Nasa prize set up to encourage entrepreneurs to start development work on the technology needed to create a space elevator

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The Liftport crew aren't just sitting on their asses and dreaming about space elevators, you know - they're branching out into other territories with a less long-term time scale. You go, guys!

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Space elevator article at Investors.com. Link via SpaceElevatorBlog.

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Another boffin steps up to the plate to bat for the space elevator

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Dr. Edwards critiques Pugno's critique of the space elevator projects; good to see some support from academia.

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Dammit.

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Nicola Pugno bites the space elevator

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...and the blogosphere bites back.

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The S.E. Blog reviews the new Liftport book...I'd better hurry up and read my copy, really!

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Sometimes all it takes is a clever little twist on a simple idea to bring publicity to your doorstep.

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