20 km high space elevator tower planned
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A revolutionary plan to build a 20 kilometre high inflatable structure to propel spacecraft into the atmosphere has been announced by Canadian company Thoth Technology. Jim Drury reports. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribe More updates and innovations news: http://smarturl.it/Innovations Reuters tells the world's stories like no one else. As the largest international multimedia news provider, Reuters provides coverage around the globe and across topics including business, financial, national, and international news. For over 160 years, Reuters has maintained its reputation for speed, accuracy, and impact while providing exclusives, incisive commentary and forward-looking analysis. http://reuters.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Reuters https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/reuters https://twitter.com/Reuters
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Anyone fancy a baked potato?
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Not possible. Our current technology only allows for 2 - 3 km towers at best.
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oh man.. yeah the retard with the soup kitchen hat @ 38 seconds in shows the doom that awaits these slaves
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place the ITS or falcon heavy in it.
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Launch rockets from the top? If the weather is shwindy it may fly side-wards.
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the guy at the start seemed to know as much about space travel as i do haha
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Great, another amazing project that is never going to happen! Now all that's missing is a kickstarter campaign. Get on it fags!
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no way could that stay up surely
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I want one.
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might be the biggetst Jenga game ever
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why not just build a massive air ship that goes up like a zapplin
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Make it four times as high and you got it. Put the top into GeoStationary Orbit and build a city up there on top, with an elevator.
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If Mankind could get off the Money System as an Economic Drive to do things, thousands of projects would open up to us.
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Arthur C Clarke, "3001"
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A Tower with it's top in GeoStationary Orbit could be an enormous space station eventually. No rockets needed at all. Elevators are the only thing needed. It could be built from the top down AND from the bottom up simultaneously. Why not?
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The idea, really, is to use the same principle as tall "Skyscraper" buildings Today: Keep building the Tower into space so that the top is not supported by the structure, but rather creates the support by being in Earth Orbit. Skyscraper Buildings Today ironically have a large heavy mass at the top of the structure to provide stability. This would be a top in GeoStationary Orbit.
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That's 12 miles guys lol. Great idea though.
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How is a tower going to help them see what life was like at the beginning of this time frame? Are they going to window shop through the glass of Heaven? lol This will allow researching asteroids that have a direct link to humans easier and cheaper, for all the times that they do.
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wow elevator tower wow 20km was plans to futur can't believe it
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Similar to hyperloop?!
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