Professor Says We Could Already Build a Floating Space Elevator – Futurism

The concept of a space elevator, a consistently popular topic in works of science fiction, has been around since at least the late 19th century.
The basic idea is to allow us to reach space by using a cable thats tethered to the Earth on one end and to a counterweight, orbiting the Earth, on the other.
But rather than having one end cemented in the Earth, scientists are now arguing that a more recently developed iteration of the space elevator design could be built much sooner. The design involves…

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