Ted the Penguin

For the layman….

Bull Dork posts about the Space Elevator.

The space elevator will change the world. Space tourism will no longer be the realm of ultra-rich daredevils, but rather the equivalent of today’s Caribbean cruise (right down to the ass hickeys). The cost of satellite TV, radio, internet, phones, etc., will all plummet. Exploration of deep space will double, triple. Solar panels will beam down enough energy to shut down half the world’s coal power plants. Someone will send up a huge array of rockets, and get unimaginably rich by hauling back an asteroid with 10,000 tons of platinum in it. Within a generation after the space elevator goes operational, we will colonize the solar system. Polluting industry can be moved off-planet. Nuclear waste can be safely chucked on the far side of the moon, and safe nuclear power will join the orbital solar plants in providing humanity with an unending supply of clean energy, as we drive hydrogen-powered cars made of space platinum and wear diamonds forged in space by the first ignition of the sun.

That, my friends, is one hell of a business plan.

Even I think some of this is a little far fetched, but the basic idea is right. One of the ‘many’ reasons I work for LiftPort Group.

Stolen from Brian.