Re: Tugs and Such

At 4:04 PM -0700 10/8/01, Jaime Tiampo wrote:

>Bean stalk ships would be very economical if FTL was expensive. Instead
>of having to pay out to have your own you could rent space on a
>interstellar transport. Navies would be mostly FTL ships for the
>flexability of it but civilian craft may only have a small percentage
of
>FTL capable craft.

I was actually thinking of Beanstalks as the elevators that rise from 
the ground and go up into space. Something that was in Low Earth 
Orbit (big heavy object) and able to deploy to the ground some sort 
of massively long cable/elevator. Not necessarily something as big as 
a full on permanent one, but something able to deploy and start off 
loading containers from orbit in a speedy fashion.

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