Thu, 16 Sep 2004
This is more like it ...
For the past nearly-four years I've had this odd feeling that I'd been
handed the wrong 21st century. But every so often bits of the real one
keep leaking through: things like the third international conference on space elevators remind me that maybe, just maybe, things are moving in the right direction some of the time.
(Yeah, space elevators. That's so 1980's, isn't it? But as Arthur C. Clarke pegged them as happening some time after 2060, and these guys are talking about building one in the next two decades, I live in hope of maybe actually getting to see the Earth from orbit before I die of old age.)
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