Re: Strategic Thrust using BR25

On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:

> Thomas Anderson wrote:
>
> > that's "the songs of distant earth", to be pedantic about plurals
:-).
> > 
> > or vernor vinge's "long shot", which is a short story and as such is
more
> > to the point about seeding, with less space elevators, etc.
> 
>	Ummmm, my memory must be going.  I don't remember
>	any space elevators in TSODE, just seed ships and
>	zero point energy stardrives.

the Magellan uses a space elevator (of the non-synchronous type, iirc)
to
lift ice from the planet's surface to orbit, to repair its dust shield.
there's a scene where Kumar (iirc), one of the characters, is sitting on
an ice block when it gets lifted, and consequently dies of vacuum
exposure.

>	There *was* a space elevator in THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE.

now that you come to mention it, yes there was :-). in fact, there is in
most of clarke's later stories.

Tom