On 2020-06-10 2:01 PM, David Spain wrote:
On 2020-06-10 1:06 PM, Niklas Holsti wrote:

But I wouldn't call a space elevator "cheap" :-)


Good point. Plus it relies on unobtainium for the cable. I've heard
carbon nano-tubes *might* be strong enough. But haven't seen them laid
out in 36,000 km long "cables" either.

Dave


https://figshare.com/articles/Growth...bution/2393992

Just need to scale this process up by a factor of 72E6 meters in length.
No quite so much in diameter.... :-)

Dave