Orbital elevator / beanstalk costs Alex Goodwin (03 May 2020 17:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] Orbital elevator / beanstalk costs Timothy Collinson (03 May 2020 21:12 UTC)
Re: [TML] Orbital elevator / beanstalk costs Phil Pugliese (03 May 2020 22:56 UTC)
Re: [TML] Orbital elevator / beanstalk costs Jeff Zeitlin (03 May 2020 23:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] Orbital elevator / beanstalk costs Alex Goodwin (04 May 2020 07:24 UTC)
Re: [TML] Orbital elevator / beanstalk costs kaladorn@xxxxxx (04 May 2020 08:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] Orbital elevator / beanstalk costs Bruce Johnson (07 May 2020 21:57 UTC)
Re: [TML] Orbital elevator / beanstalk costs Phil Pugliese (07 May 2020 22:07 UTC)
Re: [TML] Orbital elevator / beanstalk costs shadow@xxxxxx (05 May 2020 03:06 UTC)
Re: [TML] Orbital elevator /beanstalkcosts Jonathan Clark (06 May 2020 01:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] Orbital elevator /beanstalkcosts Rupert Boleyn (06 May 2020 03:48 UTC)
Re: [TML] Orbital elevator /beanstalkcosts Kelly St. Clair (06 May 2020 04:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] Orbital elevator /beanstalkcosts Alex Goodwin (06 May 2020 05:31 UTC)
Re: [TML] Orbital elevator /beanstalkcosts Kelly St. Clair (06 May 2020 08:52 UTC)

Re: [TML] Orbital elevator /beanstalkcosts Kelly St. Clair 06 May 2020 08:52 UTC

On 5/5/2020 10:30 PM, Alex Goodwin wrote:

> How does that change at nontrivial scale?  For example, billions of
> shuttlecraft in flight around the clock?

That's why I noted "can build them yourself, at any size."  Instead of
billions of individual carpets, you have mere thousands of <s>football
fields</s> flying container ships.

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