An Elevator to Space: Markus Landgraf at TEDxRheinMain

[LongTomH]

Somewhere on a hard drive on my old laptop is a partially-completed article on space elevators inspired by interviews with a member of the Kansas City Space Pirates (I do have a bad habit of beginning articles and never finishing them).

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Well, there's been quite a few articles written already, so don't sweat it ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator

http://spaceelevatorwiki.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

[Javaman]

2. whomever builds one needs to overcome the failures of the tensile strength of the cable.

weight to strength ration.

once the folks with the big brains can make a continuous strand of nanofiber "thread", everything else is already in place.

[lastlib]

3. "The Fountains of Paradise," by Arthur C. Clarke....

GREAT novel about a project like this! A must-read!