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Will a space elevator ever be possible?

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smokenherb | 3 years, 2 months ago view on twitter
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Current (2009) technology is not capable of manufacturing practical engineering materials that are sufficiently strong and light to build an Earth based space elevator. This is because the total mass of conventional materials needed to construct such a structure would be far too great. However, recent conceptualizations for a space elevator are notable in their plans to use carbon nanotube-based materials as the tensile element in the tether design, since the measured strength of microscopic carbon nanotubes appears great enough to make this theoretically possible. Current technology could produce elevators for locations in the solar system with a weaker gravitational field, such as Mars.
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sukmrsing | 3 years, 2 months ago view on twitter
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might be if we colonise moon in coming years then elevators would be must

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When people speak of a space elevator they usually mean, " Can one be built from space to the earth?" That is possible in the future with methods described by smokenherb. I think that the most likely use of space elevators is for mining the moons of various planets.

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