up, up and away

i didn’t think science would develop these super strong nanotech fibers into longer strands so soon. but the process sounds both easy and cheap to make super strong rope. that’s exactly the sort of thing we’d need for a space elevator.

the cost of getting to space is terrible. thousands of dollars of fuel and rocket maintenance for each pound sent to space. so sending yourself to outer space costs millions. less if you’re a thin thread of a man like i. the aerospace plane projects are designed to reduce the cost by almost an order of magnitude, but it will still be expensive until we have an elevator.

imagine a space platform tethered to the surface of the earth - probably attached to the top of a tall mountain - by a super strong set of woven cables. then a sort of elevator could climb and descend the cables and reduce the cost of moving material to space by another order of magnitude or two. these cables need to be stronger and lighter than what we can make today. that’s why nanotube fibers are so exciting. they are just the stuff we would need.

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