Comments on: Reasonably Fast https://blog.speculist.com/space_elevator/reasonably-fast.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/space_elevator/reasonably-fast.html#comment-250 Stephen Gordon Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:28:30 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=202#comment-250 I read somewhere that the first space elevators will have to limit themselves to cargo because they would be too slow.

Not because passengers would get bored with the long ride (they’d have a heck of a view), but because they would get too much radiation.

Hey, we’re talking about a SPACE ELEVATOR here! If we get the technology to build that, surely we’ll be able to build better shielding.

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