OT. This sounds pretty amazing, a space elevator.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...le-space-elevator-invented-by-scientists.html

 

[RUScrew85]

This has been getting kicked around science web sites for years. The problem is getting a material strong enough to support it's entire weight as the tether. Carbon nanotubes have been considered as has diamond-like fibers.

 

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This is a very old idea but this is the first one to use pressurized air. There was a tv commercial years ago in which a kid finds a rope leading to the sky and he pulls it in and manages to take out a satellite that was on the other end.

 

[RUScrew85]

This is a very old idea but this is the first one to use pressurized air. There was a tv commercial years ago in which a kid finds a rope leading to the sky and he pulls it in and manages to take out a satellite that was on the other end.

I vaguely saw something about a what 12 mile high inflatable tower? LOL. First - that's just nuts, second what about the other 23,000 odd miles necessary for a space elevator?