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Space Elevator Challenge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-dismal-flop dept.

MattSparkes writes "For the second year in a row, no team has won the $200,000 prize in the Space Elevator Challenge at the Wirefly X Prize Cup. Three teams were disqualified before the contest even started. Another competition at the event has been held up by confusion. Incredibly, it seems the organisers of the competition are not sure whether the ribbon used was 50 or 60 metres long, and whether any team completed the climb fast enough to win."

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  1. Re:X-Prize by Rogerborg · · Score: 0, Troll

    And what's going to drive that material technology? What, other than space elevators, requires space-elevator strength cabling? We need another Apollo project, not a bunch of interns running Lego robots up fishing twine.

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  2. Re:X-Prize by InsaneProcessor · · Score: 0, Troll

    Besides be an absolutely absurd concept, there is not practicality to a "space elevator". On the practical side this is laughable.

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