Wasn't it a Heinlein story that suggested that all space traffic go through the Space Elevator as a means of controlling the plague? The fleas that passed it along would not survive the high altitudes that served as the base for the Elevator? Of course, the most recent proposals I've seen suggest a terrestrial base for the elevator in the Pacific, so that would thwart that idea.
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Wasn't it a Heinlein story that suggested that all space traffic go through the Space Elevator as a means of controlling the plague? The fleas that passed it along would not survive the high altitudes that served as the base for the Elevator? Of course, the most recent proposals I've seen suggest a terrestrial base for the elevator in the Pacific, so that would thwart that idea.
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