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First 'space elevator' — a 66,000-mile cable to the cosmos— closer than ever before as scientists make breakthrough
A nonprofit consortium believes a 66,000-mile graphene tether could make daily Mars launches routine — and the material might finally exist.
- “A space elevator would be built 'about fifty years after everybody stops laughing.'”
- The colossal cable would be nearly invisible but reflective, like a mirror — ground-based spectators catching an occasional thin, long glint of reflected sunlight slicing down from heaven.
- Rockets must be 85–95 percent propellant to escape Earth's gravity. Cargo is typically just 2–4 percent of liftoff mass. Engineers call this the 'tyranny' of the rocket equation.
- It looks like we found the material. Technology doesn't go on a linear line — every once in a while somebody makes a discovery and capabilities jump from linear to really huge.
- By the time a project like that starts generating cash flow for investors it could be two and a half, three decades. They're looking for a return — hopefully while they're still alive.
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