newyorklily
02-23-2012, 10:25 PM
Honestly now, do any of you feel that you would use something like this, if you had the chance?
http://www.space.com/14656-japanese-space-elevator-2050-proposal.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SP_02232012
People could be gliding up to space on high-tech elevators by 2050 if a Japanese construction company's ambitious plans come to fruition.Tokyo-based Obayashi Corp. wants to build an operational space elevator (http://www.space.com/2956-space-elevator-hoist-heavens.html) by the middle of the century, Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported Wednesday (Feb. 22). The device would carry passengers skyward at about 124 mph (200 kph), delivering them to a station 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers) above Earth in a little more than a week.
In Obayashi's vision, a cable would be stretched from a spaceport on Earth's surface up to an altitude of 60,000 miles (96,000 km), or about one-quarter of the distance between our planet and the moon. A counterweight at its end would help "anchor" the cable in space.
I used to get nervous going to the 106 floor in the World Trade Tower.
http://www.space.com/14656-japanese-space-elevator-2050-proposal.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SP_02232012
People could be gliding up to space on high-tech elevators by 2050 if a Japanese construction company's ambitious plans come to fruition.Tokyo-based Obayashi Corp. wants to build an operational space elevator (http://www.space.com/2956-space-elevator-hoist-heavens.html) by the middle of the century, Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported Wednesday (Feb. 22). The device would carry passengers skyward at about 124 mph (200 kph), delivering them to a station 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers) above Earth in a little more than a week.
In Obayashi's vision, a cable would be stretched from a spaceport on Earth's surface up to an altitude of 60,000 miles (96,000 km), or about one-quarter of the distance between our planet and the moon. A counterweight at its end would help "anchor" the cable in space.
I used to get nervous going to the 106 floor in the World Trade Tower.