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Japanese construction giant promises space elevator by 2050
Once the realm of science fiction, a Japanese company has announced they will have a space elevator up and running by the year 2050.
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It's about time! Arthur C. Clarke is a disembodied space baby somewhere and he's smiling at this.
Ughm, you forgot the "sir" :D
Good luck finding a substance or construction method strong enough.
Well they do have 35+ more years to do it
They are estimating that they can create the carbon nanotubes by 2030.
With the way things are going, I would be surprised if by 2050 we didn't have a space elevator.
What about all the space debris? Won't that create problems?
I hope they have good elevator music if it will take 7 days to get up there.
Just don't build it in earthquake prone Japan.
They need to name this "the beanstalk"