[FT] Beanstalks again was Fwd: And Another Thing ...

My friend Brian and I had a chat about the recent Beanstalk discussion. 
He 
suggested the following:

>From: "Brian Fuchs" To: "Brian Bilderback" <BBilderback@Hotmail.com>
>Subject: And Another Thing ...

>    If you placed multiple beanstalks around the equator of your planet

>(for example: 240 around earth's equator, each 100 miles apart), it
would 
>become more economical to give up on the idea of geosynchronous
satellites 
>altogether.  Instead, a "ring" would be formed around the planet by 
>building an arching Causeway between the cables, which then become like
the 
>spokes in a wagon wheel.
>
>    The earth is the hub, and the Causeway occupies every point along
the 
>circle described by geosynchronous altitude above the equator of the 
>planet.  The Causeway could then be filled with such instrumentation as
is 
>deemed most useful to have been a geosynchronous orbit.  Structural 
>stresses on the Causeway itself would be minimal, as it is both
weightless 
>and steady at each end by a cable.
>
>     Perhaps farther out, another ring could be attached at the extreme

>high end of the cables.  This one would, of course, have to be much
more 
>structurally resilient.  But it would provide a working and perhaps
living 
>space with gravity.  Here we could station of those workers responsible
for 
>launching interplanetary vehicles.

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