Space: Who Knew, #5

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Space Elevators

I was recently doing research for our game project when I came across these wiki articles...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_space_elevator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop
http://www.spaceelevatorblog.com/

Seems it is actually plausible to have a cable system that transports supplies and passengers up from the Earth's surface and into space. The first wiki article explains all about the process focusing on Earth as the example planet. While the second wiki uses the Moon as an example. The third is a different engineering approach called a Launch Loop.

There is a neat video on the front page of the 4th link as well.

Its an interesting thought now isn't it?


Who knew???