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Space Elevator Going Up

Posted by michael on from the penthouse-suite dept.

Adlopa writes "The Guardian newspaper reports on scientists' efforts to realise the space elevator, as first described by Arthur C Clarke in his 1979 novel 'Fountains of Paradise'. Advances in materials science mean that 'a cable reaching up as far as 100,000km from the surface of the Earth' is no longer an impossibility and 70 scientists and engineers are discussing the idea at a conference in Santa Fe today."

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  1. what i really want to know is... by knowles420 · · Score: 5, Funny

    will it have a 13th floor?

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    -knowles
    1. Re:what i really want to know is... by atchertha · · Score: 5, Funny

      will there be an elevator in the elevator so that people of average human height will be able to reach all of the buttons? seems like there'd be quite a few...

  2. The thing that really sucks... by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...about the space elevator is when the kid who launched his satellite just before you mashes every button before getting off.

  3. Re:Kind of scary. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    I swear to god, if my eyes roll any harder, they're going to fall out of my head.
    Really, considering the near-symmetric encompassment of your sockets around your eyes, and the juicy friction-reducing fluid your eyes are lubricated with, I fail to see how any angular momentum of your eyeballs would result in translational motion away from your head.