Will this put the Modular Cutter out of work?

[Father Fletch]

This New York Times Article discusses a plausible space elevator.

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[Jame]

Oooooooooh, space elevator (gargle)......

Cheap, easy and fast. But we still need ships to leave it.

Didn't that pair of anime films, the Armitage series, have one?

 

[Granpafishy]

Originally posted by Jame:
Didn't that pair of anime films, the Armitage series, have one?

I don't know about Armitage, but the 'Battle Angel Alita' series most certainly did.

 

[Traveller]

Wasn't it 2300AD that had beanstalks?

 

[vutpakdi]

I don't think that space elevators/beanstalks would put modular cutters and shuttles out of work. The elevators would take some time/resources/funds to construct and maintain. From a strategic perspective, they also make a dandy target for attackers or terrorists.

Major core worlds probably have them, but I'd imagine that most worlds would still find lots of work for various small craft.

Ron

 

[Andrew Boulton]

The Traveller scenario "Tower Trouble", way back in White Dwarf #71, had a beanstalk.

 

[Zutroi]

... and once again, Arthur C Clarke's "The Fountains of Paradise" springs to mind...

 

[TheDS]

Contra grav, thrusters, antigrav, and all that stuff make it so cheap to put things into and out of orbit that beanstalks are not going to be economically feasible. Until those things are invented, however, a beanstalk beats the crap out of anything we have today.