Highlift Systems' Space Elevator In The News Again

Kris_J writes "Highlift Systems may have found a second location for the anchor of their space elevator -- Perth, Western Australia. Apparently we have the calm waters and international airport that it needs, amongst other things. Slashdot has covered this company's efforts before: Oct 9, 2002 and, earlier, August 13, 2002, but it's worth discussing again since '[recent funding] has been given momentum by the Columbia shuttle disaster.'"

Comments

Pranksters...

[silvaran]

Now we'll have some goof push all the buttons on the elevator and ruin it for the rest of us...

Water slide

[IanBevan]

Now what we need is something like this that the glass bottom doored opens up on: the world's longest waterslide :-)

Re:still seems pretty expensive

[La Temperanza]

We can send more corporate junk up into space until Earth's orbit is so clogged with satellites that they block out all sunlight and jump-start the next ice age.