Space Elevator Games - Video

[Shirleypal]

August 15, 2009
It's right out of NOVA or the scifi channel: Microsoft is sponsoring the 2009 Space Elevator Conference, a four-day long event with movies, presentations, and workshops where engineers and entrepreneurs gather to discuss the technical and logistical issues of building an actual elevator to space.

"It's bringing top people around to present ideas from a research standpoint and a business standpoint," said conference spokesperson Melinda Young. "We're talking about a way to supplement travel to space by rockets."

While the idea of a space elevator has been around for about 100 years, the idea became more feasible by the 1991 discovery of "carbon nanotubes," tiny atoms that can come together and make a cylinder. The elevator is built around the idea of a ribbon and tether that could lift people thousands of miles into near space to a destination such as the International space station

Link to Video

[Dude111]

Indded interesting!

Here is the video (So ya dont have to goto the page to see it)

http://www.youtube.com/v/pnwZmWoymeI

Dunno if i would wanna do it or not!