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Will a space elevator ever be built?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

As of now (2008) technology it is not practical to make materials that are sufficiently strong and light to build an Earth based space elevator. This is because the weight of conventional materials needed to construct such a structure would be far too great.

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