#PennedPossibilities 1071: What is something you wish existed in the real world that exists in your WIP?
Space elevators! Because fuck Elon Musk.
@cstross
Would be nice.
The materials don't exist ; it's not clear if the materials *can* exist, using chemical bonds.
@cstross Musk would buy it and say he built it
@cstross Also space elevators are just fucking cool.
@cstross I've always been a fan of space elevators. Until I watched that scene from the TV version of Foundation.
@jeffzugale @cstross Another interesting concept -- I knew the fellow usually attributed with the concept in fact I used his terminal to do some work when I'd visit the original Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) site -- is the orbital skyhook. Of course, it has its own issues as well.
