of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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I'm a space enthusiast...so I'll give all ya the 411 on the Space Elevator.
ok, Its going to be 62,000 miles long...not 170. At the end of it will be the counterweights...which wont be a asteroid, like you see in some early renderings, but it will wither be simple chunks of steel lofted up by rockets, and/or it will be left over "climbers", which is just another name for elevator.
It will not be in an enclosed structure...it will be a single cable/ribbon that will be appx. 3 feet wide and paper thin.
There should be one built around 2030.
And its not a really speedy elevator...it would take around 6 days to reach the top...at the currently studied 200 mph speed. But keep in mind...the vast majority of climbers wont go that high...hell the ISS sits at just 250 miles...But (for instance) if you wanted to put your satellite in a GEO orbit, which is around 22,000 miles, then that would take around 2 days...which is pretty quick considering most rockets get delayed many says anyway.
anywho...The Space Elevator Will be build with in your lifetime.
Public space travel is around 3 years away...But its to sub orbit, and will cost around 200,000 bucks...and it will be around 5 years until the first public space station is up there.
The days of big government's owning space are dwindling fast...and public space flight is catching on quick...public ventures will make money...something government funded projects cant do.