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7553619Slingshot: Building the Largest Machine in Human Historyhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/slingshot--building-the-largest-machine-in-human-history-9781968367084/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7174180/image.jpg?v=638844090055730000154154MXNGandhiInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Travel to space for the price of a train ticketto the Moon for a little bit more.</strong></p><p>"Slingshot <em>does for the launch loop what Arthur C. Clarkes</em> The Fountains of Paradise <em>or Sheffields</em> Web Between the Worlds <em>did for the space elevator."</em><br />Alastair Mayer Author of the <em>T-Space Series</em></p><p><em>Slingshot</em> is a love story<strong>about a man, a woman, another man, another woman, some gender bending...and a machine, the largest ever built. <em>Slingshot</em> is a mystery</strong>about a missing aviatrix, a conspiracy, a true-believer.</p><p><em>Slingshot</em> is an adventureabout following a dream, the ocean-deep, outer space. <em>Slingshot</em> is about constructing the first space launch-loop stretching 2,600 km between Baker and Jarvis Islands in the Equatorial Pacific. Its about high finance, intrigue, unlimited ambition, heroism, fanaticism, betrayal...and about opening space to the common person.</p><p>The setting is the day-after-tomorrow. Technology has advanced, the web is more pervasive than ever, but human ambition and greed remain unchanged. In <em>Slingshot</em>, Alex Regent, Margo Jackson, and Klaus Blumenfeld reach for the stars as they blend their skills to create the worlds first space launch-loop, backed by major software money. Environmental fanatic Lars Watson with his team of young eco-terrorists are funded by opposing financial interests, who will go to any length to halt the project. Reporter Lori Kutcher indiscriminately applies her own personal skills to ensure it is she who reports the unfolding events to a watching world.</p><p>With a cast of 69, <em>Slingshot</em> takes you from Seattles world financial district, to the ocean bottom at 5,000 feet off Baker Island, to the edge of space 80 km above. You play with dolphins and battle sharks. You fly and sail and dive, you work and play and love across the vast panorama of an Equatorial Pacific being put to leash to serve humanitys surge into outer space. While its accurate science and precise engineering will appeal to hard science-fiction buffs,</p><p><em>Slingshots</em> major focus is the grand journey, the opening of outer space to the common person by men and women who loom larger than life as they work, play, and love.</p>...7169314Slingshot: Building the Largest Machine in Human History154154https://www.gandhi.com.mx/slingshot--building-the-largest-machine-in-human-history-9781968367084/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7174180/image.jpg?v=638844090055730000InStockMXN99999DIEbook2025Inglés