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Space Elevator Group to Open Nanotube Factory

Posted by timothy on from the too-small-to-care-about dept.

FleaPlus writes "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Universe Today report that the LiftPort Group, a consortium dedicated to commercially developing and constructing a space elevator, will be opening a carbon nanotube manufacturing plant in June of this year. The new facility has been dubbed LiftPort Nanotech. Many expect the LiftPort Group to be a front-runner in NASA's recently-announced Centennial Challenges competitions for space elevator technologies, which begin in September of this year."

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  1. Elevator Music by Before+The+End+Chaos · · Score: 5, Funny

    Naturally, this elevator's music will be composed entirely of Star Trek themes.

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  2. Well... by PsychicX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Won't it be kinda boring? I mean, I always enjoyed going to a large skyscraper, pressing every button in the elevator from bottom to top, and then getting off at the very next floor, leaving any other poor bastards to wait as the elevators stops on every one of 84 floors. Not too many floors in space though. At least, not yet. I'm betting there'll be a McDonald's half way up by the time you or I get a ride.

  3. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The recently opened NanoFactory has been reported lost. Scientists are combing the floor near their desk to find the misplaced factory.