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Jim Cline's Documents
Bouncing High Above the World 20101002 Scribd
A dig near an old airport finds a historical aircraft
Category:Science Fiction & FantasyReads:168Uploaded:10 / 03 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionGoing Past the Town Prison
Retiring on a distant planet, Geodon rides the pylon trapeze transportation across the frozen lava field to the small desert town to be his final home. Arriving, he walks past the foreboding town prison, then to his newly solar-power-built home made of the lava of this world. He finds love and an interesting new being from a distant place.
Category:Science Fiction & FantasyReads:467Uploaded:01 / 24 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionIdeas About Pressure-Strengthened Vehicular Substructures
Ideas for low mass, light weight vehicles of adequate functional strength, might be made of substructures strengthened by internal pressure within them, and the sub-sections assembled into the appropriate shaped full vehicle structures. For ease, imagine soda straw sized balloons made of pressurized high strength plastic or metal, and the straws all glued together to make complicated large shapes such as cars.
Category:Math & EngineeringReads:422Uploaded:06 / 28 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionMasters of the Trading Game
Sci fi short story: an ambassador from the Federation of Planets is exploring the best mode with which to do trade with a new planet, but finds he is being considered expendable
Category:Science Fiction & FantasyReads:556Uploaded:06 / 21 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionMooncable Project Described in GEnie Library Files 1988
Some files that were put on the GEnie network, circa 1988, prior to the internet availability, describing the Mooncable Project concept, which was an anchored lunar tapered tether toward the Earth and balanced across L-1; includes conductors, maglev tracks, foam-casting of nickel-iron-foam entry gliders for finishing the path to the earth surface after drop-off from the end of the tether. Also mentions similar technology for tether anchored on Phobos to assist in transportation to and from the Martian surface.
Category:Math & EngineeringReads:296Uploaded:04 / 30 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionThe Mooncable: A Profitable Space Transportation System - Original
1972 documents consisting of an informal unsolicited proposal for an Apollo-followup space project: a lunar anchored tether tapered-cross-section tether made of fiberglass, balanced across L-1, and associated manufacturing, delivery and product utilization thereby enabled; and includes NASA's reply to it.
Category:Math & EngineeringReads:376Uploaded:04 / 30 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionBuilding Up
1st in Jim Cline's sci fi saga; also includes two short stories and the technological background of the concepts involved, including the PullBand ground commute concept, the anchored tether space elevator, the classical wheel type space station in LEO, and the kinetic energy supported transportation structure between ground and GEO,. The two short stories are included: "The Novelway Prototype Shop" and "Crisis on First KESTS" are included to fill in the relevant events.
Category:Science Fiction & FantasyReads:1,472Uploaded:04 / 30 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionThe Torus City Ice Shields Returning Home
4th in the sci fi series by Jim Cline. The passive ice shields from the ring of toroidal cities in GEO are being removed from orbit to prevent collapse in a few hundred thousand years; and their structural materials return to the Moon finds the old rulers of Earth still exist there. In the meantime, a fleet of wavelets containing the essence of a being that was transmitted toward the solar system long before, arrives to find it is involved in it all too.
Category:Science Fiction & FantasyReads:508Uploaded:04 / 26 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionThe Ark of 1984's Future
A NanoWriMo novel by Jim Cline, where two political corporations occupy the city, split into two areas and have very different work requirements. The two giant corporations are rivals, yet have to work together to survive. The working class corporation, the 3Musketeers, is building a huge space carousel escalator so as to enable use of GEO to save civilization and restore the collapsed Earth surface ecosystem; but they are thwarted by the elite's TANFL corporation Then TANFL realizes it will be able to freely take ownership of the whole world by helping the 3Musketeer's achieve their dream.
Category:Science Fiction & FantasyReads:531Uploaded:04 / 20 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionBuilding an Emergency HRC-Type Zapper
Design for a handhold-current-indicating form of HRClark type zapper that also has dual duty cycle option; the output is buffered for better output to varying handhold loads. Has a unique LED visual output that is a measure of the actual signal in the user. Intent is as an emergency usage device, and is only for educational purposes, of course.
Category:ScienceReads:2,076Uploaded:04 / 19 / 2009ShareAdd to collection
