SPACE HIGHWAYS

Have you ever seen the rope hanging from the space ? Or, better to say the rope which end disappears in the azure of the sky? Yes, you answer, but only in the cartoon about Aladdin.

However, believe me, the rope that hangs from the sky, is absolutely possible and that too without any conjuring tricks. I must be more precise and it is better to say that the rope is fastened on the surface of the Earth, consequently on the ground, and it falls into the sky.

A Space Elevator made of a carbon nano tubes composite ribbon anchored to an offshore sea platform would stretch to a small counterweight approximately 62,000 miles (100,000 km) into space. Mechanical lifters attached to the ribbon would then climb the ribbon, carrying cargo and humans into space, at a price of only about $100 to $400 per pound ($220 to $880 per kg).

Such technologies would lead to a terminology called "SPACE HIGHWAYS", which means high speed connectivity link between any celestial body and the space using a ultra high speed vehicle rolling over the it.

Looking energetically, the space elevator is the device that uses the Earth's rotational energy. Lifting up the load on greater distances is energetically very profitable. As the difference from the rocket, lifting up and landing can be done continuously. The price for drive would be law. That is the only way for massive lifting up of the load in the future. Other uses are possible, as for example the transmission of the electric power to the ground, improvement of the telecommunications etc. The space elevator would be ecologically very acceptable.

The greatest barrier in the technical sense and the most demanding task would be lifting up and setting up the first cable on the synchronous axis.

This is no more science fiction, this is what I called Technology.
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