XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Sergio  schrieb:   
   > On 6/16/2018 8:54 AM, Alain Fournier wrote:   
      
   >> Building an elevator, with current technologies, is outrageously   
   >> expensive. But if you have one, it can be very useful.   
   >>   
      
   > we don't have one, and never will.  It is a joke among Engineers.   
      
   Well, I did like the space elevator in "Red Mars".   
      
   Spoiler:   
      
   When it fell, Mars finally acquired a visible equator... it came   
   down as some sort of continuous meteor.   
      
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