Lift to the Space

Hai.what??Are you saying is correct???I am really surprised??Do you know the speed with which it goes to space...If it is true it would be a wonderful journey!!Thanks for letting me know about this..

Oh yes, there have been plans for building a space elevator for a long time... I think the first concepts of it were introduced back in the late 1800s. But, there are some big problems to it. It's about 350km from the land on earth, to a point where you're outside the atmosphere enough to actually orbit the earth (give or take a couple km, depending on where you are.) So, if you want to have an elevator to space, you need cable to bring you up there. Saying that 10 meters of elevator cable would weigh around 1kg (and that is some extremely light cable...) then 350km would weigh 35,000kg. That is a lot of weight! Enough weight that it would be impossible (currently) to bring it up to space, and impossible to keep it afloat. Nowadays, there have been improvements in nanotechnology, making extremely light cables that are extremely strong, but their weight is still massive when talking about 350km. And that's not the end of it, either. You need to have a pulley system at the other end, a counterweight to keep it stationary, which has to be much further out. This results in a cable that is about 35,000 km above the ground. It's simply huge, and extremely difficult, and extremely expensive to do. So, there needs to be something behind it to make it worth while. Science would have great expanse if we had something like that, and there would be tourism, and things like making the moon and mars more habitable for us to live on... but there's still no way that any company could make it's money back from such a project, and that's a problem. So, there are big hopes for it. I truly dream that someday before I die, I'll get to see a space elevator. That would be simply incredible... but, a lot of science has to be understood, for us to actually get there, for low costs. It's seeming nearly impossible right now, almost like the concept of everyone owning a flying car, which they just knew would happen, back in the 50s (or flying skateboards from the 80s), but they still haven't happened, and there's not much of a chance of them actually happening.. But I still hope.

oh is it real.. Not a bad idea.. No need of sending rockets day by day from different countries. Traffic of rocket in future can be minimized. but will they allow Indians to use it.

Hi Karthik, I too read it on the newspaper and get details through net also. Its going to done by Japan based concern. Its nice to hear, but they are expecting it to release on 2050. By the year 2050 lots and lots of things will get changed. May be this kind of lifts become ordinary at that time. Lets wait and see it.