Next Big Future: Lunar Space Elevator Kickstarter is over $16,000 a...: Lunar Space Elevator Kickstarter is over double its $8000 goal. The Lunar space elevator kickstarter is over $16,000 and still increasing. ...
This appears to be promising a lot. Maybe too much. The lunar part may be feasible, but you have to stay with the concept awhile until you get to that point. This project is starting out with some climber technology, and they apparently believe they can make this work on the moon.
I've looked into moonstalks before. The video below is not exactly what I had in mind, but it could be what was written about in the link shown in the previous sentence. The video doesn't mention what materials would be used for the climbing "ribbon". Nor the masses required and so forth. I suspect that this method may be oversimplified, but here it is all the same:
Update:
I may have jumped to conclusions. They aren't promising that much. It looks reasonable after reading a bit more of it, but perhaps it is packaged a little too aggressively. They will eventually need a lot of money to do this project, but according to the site, this is not their goal right now. Okay, if that sounds confusing, you'll just have to read it yourself.
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