baleen
Skip 30 seconds in to see the bot slide up the wire. In a hundred years giant versions of this will be carrying 30 lb. orbital tomatoes back to Earth.
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rroach 
Five stars for Arthur C Clarkes new post-humous obituary: Died Of Shame.
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Smellvin
So... they managed to tie a solar panel to a line and run said solar panel up thirty feet...
Unless there's more to it, why isn't this just some twelve year old's science fair project?
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crotchy
Awesome. And that's three years old! They seem to have made slow but steady progress since then:
http://www.spaceelevatorgames.org/
THIS is the sort of thing I expect with 2010 - literally and figuratively The Future! - a couple of months away.
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Konversekid
Just this week they held another competition for it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_space_elevator
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Longshot-
I don't think connecting a wire/cable from the ground to space is such a good idea.
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memedumpster
This just goes to show that we'll get to space any way we can. If NASA wont build us a starship, we'll take the fuckin' lift.
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