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NASA Still Wants Space Elevator
Jerry Smith writes "The Guardian reports 'Each of the groups that will gather in New Mexico is competing to win a NASA prize set up to encourage entrepreneurs to start development work on the technology needed to create a space elevator.' It still might take a while though, progress is slow, so slow."
Mankind cannot be given easy access to space. The Commer$ial Intere$t$ that control our country, the U.S. of A., want our populace to remain stupid and in an uneducated and physically-deteriorating condition so that we remain $imple Con$umer$, feeding at the Commercial Trough. I won't even mention what the aliens want. Too much Conspiracy before breakfast curdles the blood.
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Tell Nasa to want in one hand, and I'll go ahead and start pissing in the other, and let's see which hand fills up faster with a space elevator.
Seriously, space elevator tech is possible, but there are a MYRIAD of useful things they could be researching instead that we could be using RIGHT NOW.
When we do get strong enough carbon fiber filaments (or diamondoid nanotech or whatever) to produce a space elevator, then we can start building it.
This whole situation feels a little cart and horsey to me.
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