Comments on: A Japanese company wants to build a space elevator by 2050 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/a-japanese-company-wants-to-build-a-space-elevator-by-2050 Safeguarding Humanity Sat, 04 Aug 2018 17:01:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Bennie Beaver https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/a-japanese-company-wants-to-build-a-space-elevator-by-2050#comment-325911 Wed, 01 Aug 2018 22:51:15 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/08/a-japanese-company-wants-to-build-a-space-elevator-by-2050#comment-325911 Nice to believe the Japanese have found materials able to stand the tensile strength of a 23,000 mi elevator to space. The idea for an elevator to space has been around for decades.

I’ve proposed building a space elevator on Europa to elevate water from below the surface-ice into space and propelled as large water drops to Mars for taraforming. Hopefully the atmosphere at Mars is dense enough to vaporize those water-ice droplets aiding in the taraforming of Mars. Otherwise, the droplets hitting the surface would work.

Of course, we would need consider any life forms discovered on Europa.

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