Axis Nova
14-05-2007, 08:54
(For reference, this is about nine months after the announcement of the project start.)
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"And that's it for the weather. Now over to you, Frank."
The camera shifts, showing a middle-aged white man, wearing a short-sleeved Hawaiian T-shirt and canvass shorts, with a microphone. In the background, a gigantic structure, obviously being built, can be seen.
"Hello, out there, folks-- Frank Thomas here, reporting from Numonica, at the construction site for what many have termed the most ambitious engineering project ever created. What you see behind me is the base for Jakob's Ladder, the name for the orbital elevator that forms part of the Icarus Project. It's currently about ten percent complete, with slow but steady progress being made. Reports from the ANSF are good as well-- the survey teams have reached the asteroid belt just this last week, and already have found three suitable asteroids. Follow-up packages were launched early yesterday morning from Peacekeeper Heaven with the neccesary robotic equipment for deploying the propulsion systems. With any luck, in about a decade or so, we'll see some of these asteroids in the L1 point, ready for use as construction materials."
"Thank you, Frank. And now for the sports--"
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Axis Nova News Network
"And that's it for the weather. Now over to you, Frank."
The camera shifts, showing a middle-aged white man, wearing a short-sleeved Hawaiian T-shirt and canvass shorts, with a microphone. In the background, a gigantic structure, obviously being built, can be seen.
"Hello, out there, folks-- Frank Thomas here, reporting from Numonica, at the construction site for what many have termed the most ambitious engineering project ever created. What you see behind me is the base for Jakob's Ladder, the name for the orbital elevator that forms part of the Icarus Project. It's currently about ten percent complete, with slow but steady progress being made. Reports from the ANSF are good as well-- the survey teams have reached the asteroid belt just this last week, and already have found three suitable asteroids. Follow-up packages were launched early yesterday morning from Peacekeeper Heaven with the neccesary robotic equipment for deploying the propulsion systems. With any luck, in about a decade or so, we'll see some of these asteroids in the L1 point, ready for use as construction materials."
"Thank you, Frank. And now for the sports--"
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