Hypotheses Non Fingo.

Go check it out.

Thanks for the link! I'm glad to see that there are such good space blogs out here. I'll be adding Transterrestrial to our blog roll tonight; you're sending us a happy amount of traffic.

I'm curious, what is your opinion of the Space Elevator concept. I signed up for the Highlift Systems newsletter, one of the companies supposedly researching the concept, but I haven't heard anything. Is a nanotube ribbon to space really an option?

Perhaps someday, but there are a lot of technical and political issues to overcome (for one thing, you have to remove all the satellites from earth orbit so they don't collide with it...) I certainly wouldn't put all my eggs in that basket.