August 20, 2002, 03:30
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Settler
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Space Elevator
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August 20, 2002, 05:38
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Beyond the Sword AI Programmer
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cool
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August 20, 2002, 06:40
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King
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very cool
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<Kassiopeia> you don't keep the virgins in your lair at a sodomising distance from your beasts or male prisoners. If you devirginised them yourself, though, that's another story. If they devirginised each other, then, I hope you had that webcam running.
Play Bumps! No, wait, play Slings!
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August 20, 2002, 07:09
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King
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cool but unlikely
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Stopped waiting for Duke Nukem
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August 20, 2002, 09:01
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Wasn't that an Asimov idea? Or was it Clark who thought up of it?
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August 20, 2002, 11:16
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Emperor
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Asimov never wrote about it (IIRC), but Clarke did in Fountains of Paradise.
Anywas, 
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August 21, 2002, 09:33
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King
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Dunno first read it in Kimb. S. Robinson Mars Triologie 
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Stopped waiting for Duke Nukem
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August 21, 2002, 09:38
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Beyond the Sword AI Programmer
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Great books those.
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August 21, 2002, 09:43
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Emperor
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Mean avatar, Blake.  Go to bed, man. 
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August 23, 2002, 12:46
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Emperor
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Hydro, in the Spartan Chronicles, gave a great description (attached word .doc)
G.
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August 23, 2002, 15:48
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Prince
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A few years ago, I've read an article in "Spektrum der Wissenschaft ", the German edition of Scientific American, which dealt with alternative ways to lift space cargo. Some really interesting ideas.
What scares me is that the greatest part of the energy is taken from the rotation of the earth. Ok, that's not really a problem unless we plan to send a sizeable fraction of earths mass into space.
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Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?
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