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No One Wins NASA Space Elevator Contest

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the get-out-and-push dept.

volts writes "According to New Scientist no one was able to grab the two $50,000 top prizes in the recent NASA 'Beam Power Challenge'. The biggest limiting factor seemed to be that no team was able to meet the speed requirement, although a group from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada set the height record at 12 meters. Not quite geosynchronous..."

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  1. Re:OMFG ROFLMAO!!! by jferris · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For whoever modded this as flamebait, in the future I'll make sure to bold all of the facts so you can find them. I can imagine that it must have been hard to find the second half of my post, being immediately following the first half.

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