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    A potential application of General Systems theory: KESTS, a unique transportation technology concept & implications (1994)
    A potential application of General Systems theory: KESTS, a unique transportation technology concept & implications (1994)
    A potential application of General Systems theory: KESTS, a unique transportation technology concept & implications (1994)
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    A potential application of General Systems theory: KESTS, a unique transportation technology concept & implications (1994)

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    An exercise application of General Systems Theory: Review the fundamental concept of "transportation;" the theory and application of "Kinetic Energy Supported Transportation Structures," including an integrated earth-surface-to-GEO bridge system; lunar-surface-to-earth orbit transportation; and building a mile-diameter space research habitat in LEO using modified Spacelab & Shuttle technologies.

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    PublisherJim Cline
    Release dateJun 18, 2009
    ISBN9781452365824
    A potential application of General Systems theory: KESTS, a unique transportation technology concept & implications (1994)
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    Jim Cline

    Jim is partially retired from a career mainly in hands-on electronics development, and is a hobbyist-enthusiast creator of some advanced space transportation integrated concepts with applications, such as Centristation and the kinetic-centrifugal supported KESTS to GEO hoop-shaped transportation structure between equatorial ground and GEO, that he has presented and had published as part of high tech space conferences; but found that aerospace has snubbed it all due to its own laid out plans for space development based on privatizing conventional rocket launch systems; so he has also written his concepts as background for his high-tech science fiction adventure novels and short stories, which is more fun than writing technical papers, anyway. Now lives frugally in Ephrata, WA, USA, with two parakeets and a computer, still doing volunteer work; having done his best despite a mostly thankless humanity. Horse to water and all that.

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      A potential application of General Systems theory - Jim Cline

      A Potential Application of General Systems Theory: KESTS, A Unique Transportation Technology Concept & Implications

      by J. E. D. Dave Cline

      As presented to the L. A. Chapter of ISSS on November 9, 1994

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2010 James E. D. Cline

      Text originally written November 1994

      Copyright © 1994 James E. D. Cline

      Cover design by Paul Adams

      Also Science Fiction by J. E. D. Cline on Smashwords:

      The Novelway Prototype Shop

      Building Up

      Crisis On First KESTS

      The Ark Of 1984's Future

      Spacetrains Are For Peacetime

      It's Down To Earth

      The Torus City Ice Shields Returning Home

      Also see the author's websites:

      http://www.kestsgeo.com http://www.escalatorhi.com

      email: jedcline@escalatorhi.com

      The author's major blog:

      www.kestsgeojedc.blogspot.com

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Chapter 1 Purpose

      Chapter 2 General Systems Theory Application: At the Beginning of System Design

      Chapter 3 Transportation in General: Over Land, Sea, Air, and Space

      Chapter 4 A Transportation Technology Potentially Bridging Earth and Near Space

      Chapter 5 The Key Transportation Technology Concept

      Chapter 6 System of Massive Payload Movement Between Earth and the Clarke Belt

      Chapter 7 Systems for Quickly Raising Average Human Competency for the Tasks

      Chapter 8 Modeling the Guided Evolution of the Applied Technology

      Chapter 9 The Key Central Transportation Technology of Kinetic Structures

      Chapter 10 The Need to Build An Imaginary, Mental Model of the System

      Chapter 11 KESTS, A Kinetic Bridge Structure Is...

      Chapter 12 Picturing General Shapes of Kinetic Structures

      Chapter 13 Dynamics Involving the Kinetic Structure

      Chapter 14 Kinetic Elements of the Mass Streams

      Chapter 15 Planetary Body Access Structural Shapes

      Chapter 16 Applications of Planetary Body Access Kinetic Structures

      Chapter 17 Emplacing Kinetic Transportation Structures Between Earth and Space

      Chapter 18 Earth Surface to Surface Applications

      Chapter 19 Kinetic Structures Integrated Into the Next Larger System

      Chapter 20 Motivation

      Chapter 21 Early Testing System for Earthnormal Space Habitats: Centristation

      Chapter 22 High Efficiency Transportation System Concepts From Moon to GEO

      Chapter 23 Power Sources for Kinetic Structure Transportation Systems

      Chapter 24 The Earth-Girdling Ring of Space Habitats: Clarke Belt City

      Chapter 25 It Must Feel Like Earth Normal

      Chapter 26 It Can Make Earth Normal

      Chapter 27 And Summarizing

      Chapter 28 Special Appreciative Acknowledgements t

      Chapter 29 About the Author

      Foreword

      This paper was originally written for presentation at the Los Angeles Chapter of the International Society of Systems Scientists, and was presented there

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