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For the past several months, Wikistrat has been working on building forecasts for the private space industry. One of their scenarios has been projecting how a space elevator might come about. In the opening words from their report: In February 2014, Wikistrat ran an internal simulation led by Bruce Wald,… Read more“SPACELIFT”
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the world’s strongest policy in support of open research and open data. If strictly enforced, it would prevent Gates-funded researchers from publishing in well-known journals such as Nature and Science. On 20 November, the medical charity, based in Seattle, Washington, announced that… Read more“Gates Foundation announces world’s strongest policy on open access research”
Shoot the Moon, one of the two space elevator documentaries successfully funded via Kickstarter, has posted an update on its Kickstarter website page. This update also includes one of the cooler selfies that I’ve seen… I thought the storyboard sketch drawing from the project update was particularly cool and so… Read more“Shoot the Moon update”
Many years ago, I started a Translation Project for this site. My idea was to find all of the translations for the English/American term “space elevator” and publish them here on this blog. When the ISEC website was initially set up, I “loaned” them this project as they needed content. … Read more“The Space Elevator Translation Project”
This is cool… Reader Chris Hibbert has pointed me to a Wikipedia page I didn’t know about, one summarizing the various Space Elevator competitions that have been held world-wide over the past several years. Based on translations obtained via Chrome, he has updated much of the information on the Japanese… Read more“Space Elevator Competitions”
Landing on the Moon by 2024 won’t be easy, but it’s not impossible. That’s an important distinction. It’s important to step back and recognize that the president of the United States stated that NASA should “use any means necessary” to achieve a rapid goal of returning to the Moon. This… Read more“To the Moon”
Another picture of a potential space elevator disaster has shown up. Admittedly, this picture of something (meteor, space debris, whatever) striking the space elevator is pretty cool but the ever increasing accuracy of tracking larger sized pieces of space debris should make this a pretty unlikely scenario… I found the… Read more“Space Elevator disasters are SO photogenic…”
The Timeline Five years is not a lot of time. When John F. Kennedy called for the nation to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth, his advisers recommended a timeline of “before the decade is out” in order to give NASA some additional… Read more“Reasons to be Skeptical”
Welcome to this edition of Weekend Walkabout. In this post, we visit India Thailand to see a ‘possible competitor’ to a space elevator, then journey to Japan to see the latest with our favorite anime series, Gundam, and then wind up in what can only be described as “Fantasy Land”. … Read more“Weekend Walkabout – Thailand to Japan to Fantasy Land…”