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Space Elevator Gets FAA Clearance

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hot-off-the-high-wire dept.

lonesome phreak writes "Techzonez has a short piece about the recent FAA waiver received by the LiftPort Group allowing them to conduct preliminary tests or their high altitude robotic lifters. The lifters are early prototypes of the technology that the company is developing for use in its commercial space elevator to ferry cargo back and forth into space."

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  1. Wow can you imagine by bryan986 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just imagine the massive migranes you are going to get when you have to listen to musak for some tens of thousands of miles

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  2. An elevator... by xpeeblix · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..all the way to space.

    What could possibly go wrong?

  3. and she's buying a... by Digitus1337 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Take THAT Led Zeppelin!

  4. I for one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Welcome our heavly lifting space overlords by pressing all the buttons in the elevator before leaving.

    1. Re:I for one... by mOdQuArK! · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why would there need to be more than one button? :-P

  5. A Space Elevator is like perpetual motion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    great idea, all we need to do is invent the technology , im not holding my breath

    perhaps the bookies should be taking bets

    Fusion Power
    Space Elevator
    Perpetual Motion
    Duke Nukem Forever
    Microsoft Linux

  6. But..... by Hydraulix · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hate to be the person that gets stuck on the 900,304,564,282,012,373 floor. :(

  7. A Business Run by Beauraucrats.. by lorelorn · · Score: 4, Funny
    We don't have a business plan,

    We don't have any investors,

    We don't have a product,

    But we do have in-principle government approval!

    Woooo!

  8. Here's my bets by backslashdot · · Score: 4, Funny


    I'd be betting the following anounts that it'll come to fruition within 100 years..

    Fusion Power: $1000
    Space Elevator: $10
    Microsoft Linux: $3
    Perpetual Motion: $2
    Duke Nukem Forever: 1 cent

  9. Re:Tower of Babel by TheGavster · · Score: 4, Funny

    This just in: Dayton, TN has ruled that no dictionary showing the developmental history of words may be used in its schools, as this violates biblical doctrine that God caused all languages to spring into being at once.

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  10. I can't wait by nemik · · Score: 5, Funny

    to join the 19741974827320328 mile high club! ;)

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  11. Re:Tower of Babel by flyingsquid · · Score: 4, Funny
    6. And the Lord said, "Lo! [they are] one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they have commenced to do. Now, will it not be withheld from them, all that they have planned to do?

    7. Come, let us descend and confuse their language, so that one will not understand the language of his companion."

    Man, thank goodness nothing like that will happen when we try to build the space elevator! That would sure screw things up.

    I mean, if you consider the possible implications of hrejit nü hrønfar ngornbø hleptic i vrüdenik slahh! Hlah! Nrkramnü, egnem znepi znepi frafnuu fraarg. Ple, ple plehehahrmon!Nkramnu? Nkramnu. Vrreedonfarnu o slan wethnip nkri nar franfor. (n'ktuthnish omo san wanaroomh!)

  12. Oh please... by Gorimek · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was really hoping we could keep the Mac/Windows flame wars out of this discussion for once...

  13. discharge ionisphere into earth by davidgrouchy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great, lay a source of conduction across the natural insulation of our atmosphere and discharge the entire ionisphere into the earth. Wheeeee