Well, I learn something new everyday. I am a technical person although I
don't work in the aerospace industry and, at first, I thought this was a
joke, I didn't know that people were seriously studying it.

I can imagine how it might work up to geo-sync orbit, but the website said
that people are also investigating how it can be used to lift payolads to
the moon and other planets - not sure how that would work.

JD



Jorge R. Frank wrote in message
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"Joe Delphi" wrote in
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What the heck is a "space elevator"?

Did you think of Googling first? There really is a lot of information on
this topic available on the web.