Lee Gomes reports today on the Space Elevator and it's future in the Wall Street Journal.
"Tie a rock to the end of a piece of ribbon, then spin it over your head. It will be pulled taut as the rock circles about. Now, imagine a ribbon 62,000 miles long, anchored near the equator with a weight on the other end. The centrifugal force of the earth's rotation will make it behave the same way. You'll end up with not only the world's biggest nunchuck, but also a kind of elevator to outer space.A space elevator is one of those ideas from 1950s-style futurism that are so whacky they might just work. A thriving community of elevator buffs certainly thinks so; they meet online at sites like spaceelevator.com."
Also in the Edmonton Journal a story on the University of Alberta entry in the Space Elevator games.
"While seemingly drawn from a science-fiction author's imagination, researchers are actually hard at work developing the "space elevator" as a cheaper, more efficient alternative to rockets.This fall, teams of engineering students, including one from the University of Alberta, hope to contribute to the project by entering their devices in a prestigious NASA-sponsored competition."
I wonder why the article didn't mention Spaceward or even provide a link to the Space Elevator Games that the article was pitching. He really left the readers hanging imho in regards to the details of the event.
Congrats for being outed! ;-)
Do you guys as any news regarding Brad Edwards and Black Line Ascension?
Ever since they have launched their website, I haven't heard any news updates about the company (as they do not have a newsletter or blog to my knowledge where I can find extra info, apart from this site).
The article does not mention the name of the games but does talk about them, dates, venue etc.
As for Brad, as a private business until they have some news I think they're keeping things quiet.