Why a Space Elevator? From alert enthusiast Ed Greisch comes the news that
The number of potentially viable human lifetimes lost per a century of postponing of the onset of galactic colonization is 5 with 46 zeros afterit! We loose 5X10**46 "great grandchildren" for each century we postpone colonizing the galaxy!!!!!!!Will no one think of the children? See 'Cosmological Forecast and Its Practical Significance' in Journal of Evolution and Technology Vol. 12 - September 2002.
