01-28-2017, 02:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-28-2017, 02:21 AM by stevebowers.)
(01-28-2017, 12:17 AM)QwertyYerty Wrote: The Martian space elevator only operated for 10 years?That's one of mine; I intended to say that the Mars elevator acted as a test-bed/demonstrator for ten years, before the first Earth elevator was built - in fact the Mars elevator continued to operate until the Technocalypse era. I'll change it.
185 - Martian space elevator completed (behind schedule and over budget). For the next 10 years it will operate as both a transport system to and from Mars orbit and a test bed for elevator technology, safety systems, elevator construction, maintenance, and expansion techniques, and a symbol of the movement to build a space elevator on Earth.