Elizabeth Stanway · @Tiylaya
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Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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📆 November 25, 2022 Stephen Cohen has been working on 🚠 for almost 20 years. He believes they will exist soon— in two or three decades. To build it, we need a whose specific strength 💪 is about 50 times higher than scientificamerican.com/article

#scientificamerican #spaceelevators #material #steel #spaceelevator

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Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
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Markus Feilner :verified: · @mfeilner
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" are often dismissed as a science fiction dream, but I believe they will exist soon—perhaps in two or three decades. Throughout my career as an aerospace engineer and physics professor, I keep coming back to the concept of a cable stretching from Earth to space, along which people and cargo can easily travel. In recent years I and other researchers have found new ways to tinker with designs and answer questions about how space elevators could work." scientificamerican.com/article

#spaceelevators

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Dr. Jack Brown :verified: · @DrJackBrown
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“Space elevators will become a reality fifty years after we stop laughing.”

Arthur C. Clarke

#materialsscience #Technology #spaceelevators #graphene #creativity #quotes

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