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Report: Space Elevators Are Feasible
Daniel_Stuckey writes "It's the scourge of futurists everywhere: The space elevator can't seem to shake its image as something that's just ridiculous, laughed off as the stuff of sci-fi novels and overactive imaginations. But there are plenty of scientists who take the idea quite seriously, and they're trying to buck that perception. To that end, a diverse group of experts at the behest of the International Academy of Astronautics completed an impressively thorough study this month on whether building a space elevator is doable. Their resulting report, 'Space Elevators: An Assessment of the Technological Feasibility and the Way Forward,' found that, in a nutshell, such a contraption is both totally feasible and a really smart idea. And they laid out a 300-page roadmap detailing how to make it happen."
Flying pigs are also doable.
That does not mean that they are a good idea, or that they are easy to make.
The three laws of thermodynamics:(1) You can't win. (2) You can't break even. (3) You can't even quit.
It would be feasible in a world without Islam. As it stands one of those nutters will decide that blowing it up will "sock it to the west", or that reaching for the heavens is some type of blasphemy.