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Originally Posted by T@T
The speed doesn't bother me as much as why the need to build it 22.000 miles long into space, they could go 70 miles and have the same effect of weightlessness or a couple of hundred miles and get a nice view of the earth.
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Like Photon said, you need to get it into geosynchronous orbit. Also, It's also not about the view or weightlessness. The point is not just to create some kind of tourist attraction but a viable way of getting things into space without the need for expensive one-off expendable launch vehicles and a fortune in fuel. A real space elevator would be paydirt because it would be a lot cheaper to send up satellites or space station components and ferry passengers into space than by conventional rockets.