Space Elevator – Help LiftPort build the Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure discussion

Say hi! We'd love to meet you, so introduce yourself.

Cheers. I'm Michelle. I help out around. More likely to say guess what I did, instead of 'somebody should' and wait for it to happen. Reader, (non fiction only, lite scifi), writer, public speaker, activist. Enjoy it even more when paid. I read engineering, physics, microbiology, cosmology, nanotech. See ya!

Welcome Michelle! I'm looking forward to your insight on these books. ;-)

Hi, I'm Tracy. This sounds like such a cool project! Like Michelle, I'm a non fiction kind of girl for the most part. Love all science and history! Can't wait to start reading.

Tracy wrote: "Hi, I'm Tracy. This sounds like such a cool project! Like Michelle, I'm a non fiction kind of girl for the most part. Love all science and history! Can't wait to start reading."

Tracy, I'm glad you've joined us. I think it will be fun. The books will -mostly- be non-fiction.

The second book we are reading is a brand-new Young Adult fiction; kind of like the old, classic Heinlein "Have Spacesuit, Will travel" style. Candidly, that's not really my kind of book, either. The only reason it's bumped to the top of the pile was the simple fact that as far as I know of, it is the ONLY story with a Lunar Elevator!

On that note, I have had an email conversation, and the Author, Homer Hickam (http://www.homerhickam.com/books/crat...) will be joining us on our discussion of his book "Crater".

Most of the other books will be relatively technical. If you have ideas, please post your suggestions in the discussion forum. You mentioned you like 'history'. Great! I want to read something good on any of the following: Golden Gate Bridge, Transcontinental Railroad, Transatlantic Cable, or Panama Canal.

Thanks for your participation - Looking forward to it!

Take care,
mjl

looking forward to reading "Crater". However, Roald Dahl wrote about a glass elevator Willie Wonka built and took to the moon and space in "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" my youngest son loved all of his books. we read them together. cheers to Willie Wonka and Roald Dahl! reading Abundance now.

Cool! Ya, I knew about "The Great Glass Elevator". That's not quite what we're working on. ;-)

I worked my way through ~100 pages of Abundance. I like it. I'm gonna post some notes in that folder this morning.

duh! about the glass elevator.....working on abundance myself.