Since our Lovely Hostess is on Holiday, we at Chapel Perilous have been requested to throw a link or two here in her absence.

It’s very, very hot here in Portland Oregon USA, and difficult to surf the web under the circumstances. Difficult to sit at a desk in a closed room and find nifty nuggets. But we’ll do our best with at least one a day.

I found this very interesting, and you might too, at least for the artwork!
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“Aerospace engineer Brad Edward’s plan for the space elevator centers on a carbon-nanotube-composite ribbon 62,000 mile long, 3 feet wide and thinner than a page of newsprint. The competing forces of gravity at the terrestrial end of the elevator and the centripetal acceleration at the deep-space end would keep the ribbon taut and stationary over a single position at Earth’s equator. Climbing vehicles powered by Earth based lasers striking solar cells would haul various payloads/cargo/astronauts to various orbits.”

But how does it counteract the effects of the Van Allen Belt?