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bill · Unfettered Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 614 Location: Tampa

[OC][OOG/META] Orbital Colony

**Posted:** Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:44 pm

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Re: Orbital Colony

**Posted:** Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:05 am

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Sure looks like it to me. Could OC finally be starting?
Oh, btw I signed up for the newsletter thing. I'm anxious to see what comes.

edit: Wait a sec. Just found this on the Orbital Colony site: "In the meantime, you can find some background reading on some of the ideas we will be exploring at Liftport.com and isr.us."

**Posted:** Wed Sep 22, 2004 8:42 am

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Hmmmm?

**Posted:** Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:40 pm

Caterpillar

LiftPort is "real"

See here

Here

And here

Very Happy

Guess this is sort of similar to Elevator:2010 as well..........who woulda thunk?

**Posted:** Wed Sep 22, 2004 1:01 pm

bill · Unfettered Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 614 Location: Tampa

More coolness.

http://www.virgingalactic.com/

**Posted:** Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:51 am

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Fi · Unfettered Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 444 Location: London

For your information, and more importantly, amusement, I thought I'd post this. I looked at the LiftPort page and was somewhat suspicious, so posted a (in retrospect somewhat purile) comment in their contact form:

**Posted:** Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:16 am

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Flidget Jerome · Unfettered Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 308

Adrian

I'm really impressed with their answer to Fi's email. The idea of a space elevator is not a new one and with carbon nanotubes, as he says, we finally have the materials to construct such a thing. Unfortunately Liftport has an uphill battle against the (understandable) incredulity of the public to the idea, so they need to keep good PR at all times.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:03 am

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Skychrono · Kilroy Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 2

Uh, heh, just to confirm... this isn't ARG related, right, but an actual technology?

If so, pretty cool.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:52 am

Fi · Unfettered Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 444 Location: London

It does seem to be real. There are some fairly interesting discussions going on their forums if you fancy looking into it further. Although I came across this question, which was spectacularly stupid:

**Posted:** Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:51 am

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**Posted:** Wed Sep 29, 2004 2:52 pm

david_hayter · Boot Joined: 02 Apr 2004 Posts: 45

You cannot access some parts of their site now(oe.com, that is).
Maybe they are updating. Maybe it is....starting........
By the way, I finished reading 2001 yesterday. Great book.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:13 am

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mst3k_freak · Boot Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 28

I've heard dead serious radio interviews about Space Elevator technology. It sounds pretty cool, but I certainly won't be the first one to ride it. The ideas are real, so if there was a Space Elevator company website, I guess it would look like that.

**Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:27 pm

Blacklight

I can confirm that Liftport is a real company. I've read many articles about them and a friend of mine was trying to get the CEO to speak at his college about the technology of the space elevator.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:07 am