One Giant Step for Mankind...

125gJoe · Feb 17, 2006

...one giant leap for mankind...

And a whole lot of 'scrabbling' for robots!

Link: http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn8725.html

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pophead · Feb 17, 2006

pretty nifty. I heard a while back that they were gonna do something like that.
btw, is the cable purple?

mvigor · Feb 17, 2006

Sci-fi becoming reality. Arthur C. Clarke published this idea in 1979 in The Fountains of Paradise and used it again in the late 90s in 3001.