Monday, September 22, 2008

Japan Leads the Way

Japan hopes to turn sci-fi into reality with elevator to the stars - Times Online: "From cyborg housemaids and waterpowered cars to dog translators and rocket boots, Japanese boffins have racked up plenty of near-misses in the quest to turn science fiction into reality.

Now the finest scientific minds of Japan are devoting themselves to cracking the greatest sci-fi vision of all: the space elevator. Man has so far conquered space by painfully and inefficiently blasting himself out of the atmosphere but the 21st century should bring a more leisurely ride to the final frontier."

1 comment:

Randy Johnson said...

I don't know who thought of this first, but I first read of this idea in two novels, The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke and The Web Between The Worlds by Charles Sheffield.