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Originally Posted by SERPENT7
A space elevator? What exactly do we need an elevator to space for? You planning on meeting someone on the top floor? Or is it so we can cheaply exploit the natural resources of the solar system? launch satelties maybe? Neither of these things are particularly good ideas IMO.
Provides jobs??!!!
Thats the best rationalization you can come up with for WASTING MILLIONS of dollars every year?! That is pretty weak. (Give me all of that money, and i gaurentee i could employ EVERY person in the country. Not just egg-heads w/ a bunch of degrees, who could have gone into other fields.)
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A space elevator would be great for that ability to launch satellites alone. Even if it was very expensive to build it might easily pay for itself by reducing the need for launches. It would also help make economical some technologies like solar power generation in space that, needless to say, would be incredibly useful.
Regarding the jobs I tend to agree, but space research is not a wholly pointless endeavour otherwise.