im all for it. just dont fart on it.

It's silly

space elevator is a proposed structure designed to transport material from a celestial body's surface into space. Many variants have been proposed, all of which involve traveling along a fixed structure instead of using rocket powered space launch. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator a hypothetical cable, connecting ground with space, which includes an elevator used to lift payloads or people into orbit SO this is what I found to see what the heck it was and I'm more confused than ever. WHAT????

I think it makes a lot of sense. What would be cool would be making super-advanced solar panels in orbit, where they could absorb more energy than on the surface, and then route that down to the planet somehow. I don't think we have the ability to do any of this now or anytime soon, though. . Can you imagine the materials and planning required for even a 30 mile high elevator to just break through the mesosphere? To get up to a realistic height for the elevator would take a good 200 miles. . Think of a single building five miles wide and five miles high that goes from NYC to Boston. Then stand that building on-end. That's the space elevator. I'm not holding my breath.

they r working on a cable that will be strong enough to hold up under its own weight plus the cargo weight. the cargo could be parts of a ship or other cargo. the cable is attached to a satellite that revolves exactly with the earth. u see?

It won't work. While it could work for a short period of time, as soon as the cable is frayed, the entire thing would have to be replaced. When a building elevator cable snaps, there are automatic brakes which clamp onto vertical struts to keep the car from crashing. No such safety system is possible on a space elevator.

We have no material presently with the tensile strength to achieve this. Carbon 60 may have the required properties. Given a material with the properties required it is theoretically possible to have and elevator to a satellite in geo-stationary orbit.

Stole my idea. I thought of that like 15 years ago. Only I think it should be a guy in a suit pulled up by a hook/clasp.

My personal opinion of the space elevator as an idea is there are too many problems to solve. One would need a cable material that can support its own weight, plus some tensile load to tether the station. It needs to also support the weight of the car that travels along the cable. The cable needs to be resistant to oxidation, corrosion from all atmospheric components, as well as abrasion from the wheels of the car that will travel along it. The cable needs to be protected from meteor impacts, including all of the space crap we have left in orbit ourselves. And the cable needs to be protected from terrorists. Just think of the target there! The cable needs to be robust to torsion and all atmospheric side loads. An interesting question to solve is how would one lift such a cable into orbit? Or would they lower it from the station? In either case, this would be a tremendous engineering problem to solve. None of my response should be taken to say that we should not conceive of such an undertaking; merely that it would be tremendously difficult. Such visionary ideas are what progress is made of. Would it be worth the endeavor? Yes. Such an elevator would allow access to space at very little cost in terms of the energy needed, compared to a rocket. We need to find ways to continue to explore the universe. Without that outlet, humanity will quickly fill the earth, using up all of the resources we have here. One must appreciate exponential growth, and the problems it causes on this Earth. At the same time, that same exponential growth would completely overwhelm a single such space elevator. Use of this elevator as our access to space would not give sufficient access to space. Of course, one might conceive of thousands of such elevators. You want to travel to Mars? Take the nearest elevator to a station that has a transport docked there, that will be heading soon to Mars. As I said, this would be both a tremendous engineering challenge, as well as a tremendous boon to mankind. While I believe the challenge to be too great to solve at the present time for us, it is worth thinking about the problems and how one might solve them.

Material sciences are not up to the task at this time. Energy expended raising a load up is almost as costly as a current day rocket unless you use a counter balance weight, finding enough mass to counter the upcoming load would be difficult.

Can you imagine how long it would take you to get out if someone farts in that thing?

WASTE OF MONEY AND ITS STUPID TO BUILD SUCH A THING. THE TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE WILL FREEZE IT COMPLETELY. THE ONLY WAY TO USE SUCH A FARCE IS TO DRESS LIKE A ASTRONAUT, BUT HIS GLOVES AND FEET WOULD FREEZE TO YOUR FARCE.