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Monday, June 2, 2014

How gothic cathedrals are helping build a stairway to the heavens

How gothic cathedrals are helping build a stairway to the heavens: Elevators inspired by Victorian towers could take us to space by 2050

Engineer Peter Debney proposes a system that uses these principles to create a space elevator. 
Firms could lower a cable from a satellite in geostationary orbit. A counterweight would balance the system, pictured. The cable would taper, to adjust the centre of mass and it would sit on the Equator, to minimise the gravitational pull A space elevator would use similar principles by combining an anchor and a counterweight in space, according to a London-based engineer

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