September 13, 2003
Technology
Science fiction.
At least, it was science fiction when Arthur C. Clarke wrote about it a bit over twenty years ago. Today, though, a group of folks in Santa Fe were discussing it for real: The cheap way to the stars - by escalator. Of course, the Guardian got it wrong, it's not an escalator, it's an elevator. And apparently, given the recent advances in materials science, NASA is taking seriously enough to put "several million dollars" into such a project.
Cooool.