Canadian space and defense company Thoth Technology is attempting to make reaching the stratosphere as simple as riding an elevator up a tower about 23 times taller than the world’s tallest building.
The Thoth space elevator patent, approved by the US patent office on July 21, specifies that the tower could be built on any “planetary surface,” (i.e. not just Earth), a sign that Thoth is thinking pretty far ahead. [...] the top of the tower will serve as a rocket launch site.
— qz.com
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actually a 120 year old idea..... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky nice to see it coming close to reality
Is that SketchUp?
Yes. It's a sketchup 3d model representation for visualization purposes. I'm pretty sure they would be using CAD or something like that for any technical drawings.
Why not skip the rocket launches and just build a hyperloop to outer space? Easy now that the hard thinking has been done!
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I guess this is today's lolz. A crappy SKU model and a trite sci fi idea.
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