And taking advantage that I�m around in this thread.

Pearson�s wasn�t the first paper on the subject in the West, there is a previous work.
"Satellite Elongation into a True Sky-Hook"
By John D. Isaacs, Hugh Bradner and George E. Backus and Allyn C. Vine.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the last guy from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

In other themes.

Nano technology is here if you haven�t heard, a page about it in National Geographic:

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0606/feature4/gallery1.html