It can be done, we have the technology.
and if that’s not reason enough…
The launching of a Satellite will be a simple and relatively inexpensive proposition. No more Giant expenditures of rocket fuel so comcast can have more premium channels.
Space exploration will be come much less expensive and maybe we can reduce NASA’s budget as well. As interesting as space exploration is, I really don’t see any practical benefits to it, at least not until someone figures out how to travel faster than the speed of light.
The largest benefits is that Orbiting Solar Arrays could be put into place inexpensively. These are basically solar panels in space, satellites and the space station are power by the same technologies. The difference in terms of producing power for earth is that the amount of energy is increased enormously because there is no atmosphere to block the radiation, as well as the fact that they get sun twenty four hours a day.
The elevator would be made of carbon nanotubes and would operate on the principles of centripetal force.
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