http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/11/05/space.elevator/ “The question Artsutanov asked himself had the childlike brilliance of true genius. A merely clever man could never have thought of it — or would have dismissed it instantly as absurd

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Can scientists make a space elevator?

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