One of my favorite sci-fi devices that might actually be realized in my life is the space elevator. I've talked about this before, but now apparently we're a step closer. Cool.
i wonder if the muzak corporation is already angling for control of the aural environment for the journey? maybe they could hire synthespians as elevator operators. oh, by the way, im still laughing.
Glad to see you're helping me get kiddies to the box office for FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN, Dave (see "cinefiles"). Sorry, Jim, for sidetracking the discussion.
why, was it going somewhere?
I think it was heading up the cable to the geostationary position, before the synthespians arrived. In addition to Fountains of Paradise, space elevators also figure prominently in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, and Doris Piserchia used the concept twice: in Earth in Twilight and I, Zombie. In the former book, broken space elevators stick out of a dying earth like pins in a pincushion, and are inhabited by giant mutant creatures (distant offspring of genetic experiments); in the latter, elevators are used to haul natural resources off planets located way out in the galactic boondocks.
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- jim 5-09-2001 2:52 pm
i wonder if the muzak corporation is already angling for control of the aural environment for the journey? maybe they could hire synthespians as elevator operators. oh, by the way, im still laughing.
- dave 5-09-2001 4:18 pm
Glad to see you're helping me get kiddies to the box office for FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN, Dave (see "cinefiles"). Sorry, Jim, for sidetracking the discussion.
- Tom Moody 5-09-2001 7:43 pm
why, was it going somewhere?
- jim 5-09-2001 7:54 pm
I think it was heading up the cable to the geostationary position, before the synthespians arrived. In addition to Fountains of Paradise, space elevators also figure prominently in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, and Doris Piserchia used the concept twice: in Earth in Twilight and I, Zombie. In the former book, broken space elevators stick out of a dying earth like pins in a pincushion, and are inhabited by giant mutant creatures (distant offspring of genetic experiments); in the latter, elevators are used to haul natural resources off planets located way out in the galactic boondocks.
- Tom Moody 5-09-2001 8:47 pm