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botfiddler t1_iye8727 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 7:11 PM

Reply to comment by gergnerd in Sci-fi-like space elevators could become a reality in the "next 2 or 3 decades" by Shelfrock77

I listened to podcast (in German, Pritlove) some years ago where someone working for European Space Agency as mission planner did the math, and concluded the materials only need to get 10x-100x stronger to make it work.