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The crawler is the easy bit. It's making the cable that's difficult because it requires materials with a tensile strength we cannot yet make in the quantity required economically.
bdf2718 3 years ago
22,000 miles is geosynchronous orbit. The tower has to have its end-point there so that the whole thing rotates with the earth. Well, actually, the counter-weight has to be a little beyond the geosynch point.
bdf2718 3 years ago
Major fucking disaster if one of those things dropped. A very inviting target for terrorists. Particularly the religious crazies who would probably view it as a second tower of Babel.
I don't think the human race will ever become mature enough that we could risk building one of those. Which is a great pity, because it's a very efficient way to get to space (particularly with regenerative braking on the way down).
bdf2718 3 years ago
whats the 22,000 miles bit? its only like 75 miles to leave our atmosphere
seansurfgood 3 years ago
Terrorists. Tornadoes.
FeelOfFriction 3 years ago
This is a fact:
Within 50 years Their will be thoes elevators or some type of them, a better type of hover crafts, little more nutular bombs, more ecomny for the U.S.A and the world would start to be as a whole as they start to wounder into space where we will die and secs to be ever alive lmfao! jk but who knows everything possible
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Sylux001 3 years ago
hmmm.. u never know. 80 yrs ago the internet would have sounded like magic. Not to mention iphones.
trancein305 3 years ago
That thing they had didn't look as advanced as you think it would be.
timg455 4 years ago