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Elevator
Head view |
Space Elevator slowing for Docking | Elevator Head Platform | Elevator car ascending string | Elevator car detail |
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Elevator
string detail |
Climber detail | Climber ascending string | Climber Cassette | Interior view of Elevator head sphere |
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| Elevator car slowing for midway dock | Landfall by Heavy Transport | Clark Wheel | Air Taxi |
Spaceport Interlude...
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| 'Shift Change'... Platform ferry lifting off |
Third level, first torus, under construction , almost ready to seal off |
A crew of rowdies in their gigs, fitting a section of hull to the framework of torus one. | Axial light array for the geosphere, suspended from the central tube that carries power, air, and communications | Transit tubes connect with the access points at the poles, allowing quick travel to and from the quarters of the sphere..... |
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| adrift | galaxy w/jets | nursery | white hole | spiral galaxy |
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| Ringworld series; Larry Nivens' Liar, rear view | The Liar, front view | Ringworld series;Kzin Cruiser entering the Ring system | Ringworld series; Fist of God mountain | Ringworld series; View of ocean shore near the Rimwall |
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| Flinger Capsule Assembled | Sabot clamshell half detail | Flinger launch phase one | Flinger launch phase two | Flinger launch phase three |
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| Capsule relative to launch tube | plan view, cargo and fuel sections | 150 foot dirigible frame | gondola detail | hull section |
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| section detail 2 | section mid view | section aft view | 150 foot hull exterior | 600 foot dirigible hull exterior |
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| 600 foot frame | lg hull section | lg hull mid section detail | decks section view | passenger decks interior detail |
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