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I have seen this in the news several times in the last several days, it looks like they are serious about this and claim it can be built for only about $5 billion dollars. They want to do a one mile high demonstration tower first to prove the technology, maybe in only 3 to 5 years.

You may ride an elevator into near space by 2025 | Computerworld


It sounds like a great idea if it can really be done. What are your thoughts on this? Would you take a one hour elevator ride in this thing?

Alan