Obviously you haven't read any of the reports. There is at least one as linked by JoshuaZ, a report for a NASA grant for preliminary study, and one by the japan association of space elevator. They have considered more problems with SE than you can think of. Though their prediction of the material development was a bit too optimistic.

but what does the govn't have to do with the whole efficiency farce. It is the oil resource (and maybe CO2 emission) that has externalities. Tax those, but leave the fxxking trucks be.

Because this is in Norway? I thought only Finnish news get a blank pass for nerd news.

if they didn't hit a real civilian target but a government target, or even a military base?

I wish someone would give you a troll mod. Hard assertion without shit to back it up.

how is government protection of intellectual property fundamentally different from protection of property, which capitalism has to base on?

They may sometimes even be angels, too bad for Windows users only.

greater than those robots who want a big hand to confiscate all the small disks and redistribute them.

clearly he doesn't understand how statistics work and how twin experiments are set up.

But if SpaceX can't deliver the promised price tag, NASA can just throw it under the bus. Those projects done by NASA itself or some really big company, not so much.

where can I find a real documentation?

why not? You don't like to lose all appetite towards the end of the game and then remorse the killing of trillions AND a planet, do you?

why don't you go on and write six more of that?

believe me, you can make a statistician kill him/herself just by forcing him/her to read them.

wait, I can see how being black is not choice, but being Christian is not the result of (poor) choice? It's a bigotry in it self to say that being overweight is a disease and there is cure ( when most of fat cases are genetically determined and there is no cure as of yet ), and say that being gay is not a disease and there is no cure ( when prenatal environment and early experience definitely have a role in determining sexuality ).