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A 'Space Elevator' is a construciton that ties a satelite in synchronous orbit physically to the the ground over which it orbits. This location is about 36,000 kilometers high. Elevators would carry people and cargo up and down. Nobody will climb up.

There are tremendous problems in creating such a machine. These include the weight of the connection. 36,000 Km of anything strong enough to carry freight will weigh a lot. The cost of construction and maintenance will be huge as well. It is not clear what benefits might result from this object that would make it worthwile. One problem that humans have not yet overcome is the tens of thousands of junk objects which space programs have left behind in orbit. These are traveilng at 17,000 miles per hour. Some are as large as third stage boosters. Some are as small as Hasselblad Cameras, or nuts and bolts. Whatever their size, if they hit the Space Elevator, they will do unacceptable damage. Until a way to clean up the mess we have orbiting the Earth is developed, it will not be safe to construct a Space Elevator.

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