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Space ladder moves closer to reality
Posted by Rich on February 15, 2006 in Technology | ∞
Robert Heinlein popularized the idea of a space ladder in his 1978 novel The Fountains of Paradise. The concept is fascinating — through the use of very high-tech carbon nanotube technology, create a thin yet super-strong ribbon structure that is connected at one end to the earth, and the other end in geosynchronous orbit. Specially [...]
More about Chax
A few days ago I briefly mentioned a plugin for iChat called Chax. I’ve now had a few days with it, and installed the latest update, 1.3.1 today. Lots of useful features, here are a few of my favorites: built-in chat log viewer send away auto-reply only once per conversation option to auto-accept text chats, [...]