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this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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The key idea of a space elevator is that it's being held in tension by a counterweight just past the point of a geosynchronous orbit. The problem of course being that even being in tension like that we don't have anything that could support its own weight let alone the capacity to construct and place such a massive structure.
A side note is that earth is probably one of the worst places for a space elevator anyways, the moon isn't an awful choice though.
supposedly we could do one on the moon to lunar orbit with current materials....
except for the gosh dang UV sensitivity