What is "beanstalk"

Usage examples of "beanstalk".

The Beanstalk had been designed to withstand most natural events, but sabotage was one thing that could never be fully ruled out.

But if we did that, what would happen to the piece of the Beanstalk that was still tethered to Earth, anchored down there in Quito?

I went across to the model of the Beanstalk that we kept on the control room table.

When it was deployed, it would reach clear around the Beanstalk, missing all the drive train and repair station fittings, and hang in close to the out-bound buckets.

After a few seconds we were outside the station, dropping down the Beanstalk after Jen and Larry.

Above us, the Beanstalk rose up and up, occulting the backdrop of stars.

But from our position, moving along the side of the Beanstalk, I had quite a different feeling.

It was more likely that the bottom would fall out of our ore bucket, than that the support cable for the Beanstalk would break.

I was kicking myself for my illogical fears, until I noticed Alicia also peering out at the Beanstalk, as though trying to see past the clutter of equipment there to the cable itself.

When we came closer to the point of attachment to the Beanstalk wall, I saw just how lucky we had been.

But a fall from there would be inexorable, and we would have fallen away from the Beanstalk, with no chance to reconnect to it.

After that there was nothing to do but cling to the side of the Beanstalk, watch the sweep of the heavens above us, and wait for the outbound ore buckets to come past us.

Again we felt the fierce accelerations as we were jerked away from the Beanstalk wall and shot upward after the carrier.

The house was supported not by a mountain but by a massive gengineered beanstalk, stiffened by a single concrete pillar.

He had taught physics at a Bloomington, Indiana, high school for twenty years, he said, and the beanstalk had been intriguing him the entire time we had been riding it.