"The cost in electricity of lifting you to space is about $200. The cost for a round trip is about $40 because you get most of your energy back on the downward trip.I've said many times that the main cost of space travel in the future is going to be for catering and in flight movies, not for fuel."
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Besides his visionary science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke has also had an astonishing influence on the scientific community. At 19, Clarke left home, moved to London, and began dabbling in science fiction. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force during World War II, and oversaw the first radar equipment used to assist in airplane landings. "Extraterrestrial Relays", his 1945 technical paper predicting the principles of geosynchronous satellite communications, was decades ahead of its time. His first sc more...
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12/16/1917 Somersetshire, Southern England, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, British Isles, Western Europe,
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Better than the movie. Explains the events a lot more. Good read.