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Stairway to Heaven? Nah--Elevator to Space

Years ago the futurist, inventor and sci-fi author Sir Arthur C. Clarke had a brilliant idea: Instead of launching rockets to get up into orbit, why not build a "space elevator?" Full Article at Core77

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  2. He didn’t like to be a manager, so he didn’t consider anybody working for him. We would throw ideas out about what wing shapes and wing sweeps and profiles would look like, and R. T. would counter with ‘No, that’s crazy,’ or ‘Yeah, that’s fine, why don’t you try it?’ In those days we had the opportunity...
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