Space elevator: Company patents 'space elevator' 20x taller than world's tallest building - TomoNews
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OTTAWA, CANADA — A new technology with the potential to change how spacecrafts enter orbit has recently been patented in both the UK and the US. To get shuttles into orbit, rockets traditionally use large amounts of fuel and energy during initial take off. Canadian firm Thoth Technology aims to change this, by essentially allowing astronauts to travel partway into space on an electrical elevator. The inflatable structure would stand at 20km high, over 20 times higher than the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. From the top, spacecrafts could launch into orbit in a single stage, eliminating the initial need for vertical launch rockets. Inventor Ben Quine told the CBC the tower could resist lightning, meteors and even category 5 hurricanes. The company’s CEO, Caroline Roberts, believes the invention, along with the development of self-landing rocket technologies could herald a new era in space transport. ------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals and much more! Subscribe now for daily news animations that will knock your socks off. Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: http://us.tomonews.net Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus
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Can resist meteors? xD Ok then.
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That's huge
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If you're going to present a concept model, don't make it in fucking google sketchup...
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They expected it gonna take 10 years to do it
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its official they gonna do it
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Fuck yu space elevator
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FAKE !!!Stupid VDO
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space elevater is illuminatii
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i wanna base jump off that
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What are they going to do if a plane crashes it? Especially at that hight manye
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It's going down for real
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One earthquakw
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Halo 3 ODST Orbital elevator is becoming real
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i think space travel and exploration is awesome and educational but shouldn't we invest money into say idk... the economy?
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0:37 near miss
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Nope
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Impossible! A thin structure like that standing at 20km would fall down.
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Yea, no not in a million years
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why travel in to space from that height when jumping 2 centimeters in the air whould also bring you into space ;)
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And ther building a stair way to heaven
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