Space Elevator: Going up? Way way up

Space Elevator

Watch a video showing how it could be done. The wonders of carbon can make it happen. Materials are often the answer and so they are her; and here’s a practical use for solar panels. Vacations in space will be nice, yes, but once it’s up and running then it becomes the “space freight elevator.” No spacecraft need ever again be built on the surface of Earth. This would be taking a big first step.

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  By Luke, September 10, 2009 @ 2:19 am

  This would definitely be worth it.
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  By Dan, November 13, 2009 @ 7:17 pm

  This, along with some sort of fusion or black hole relativistic drive is all we need to start colonizing the galaxy. Then we’ll have somewhere to put Hilary Clinton…

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