Re: Belated comment: the space elevator guy

On May 14, 5:00 pm, nebu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
>         I'm sorry that more urgent issues have been keeping me from
> posting regularly but on the bright side I have 145 pages done of a
> second textbook that will hopefully make my plumage more interesting
> to potential employers.

Did you write that book about "Vorticity, Statistical Mechanics, and
Monte Carlo Simulation"? If so, wow. How many celebrities have people
who can write statistical mechanics textbooks in their active fan
base?

>         The real problem is making a cable lightweight and strong
> enough for the task.  While a couple materials with the right weight
> and strength characteristics exist, there aren't yet ways known to
> make cables of those materials *nearly* long enough.

I thought the other problem was that breaking the elevator would be a
really good way to kill people.