Going Up?

" It's -- good. -- yeah. Economy I think IDR. That was a classic clip of course from Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory what was that quote I bet it scared me -- you -- well it would candy -- glass elevator. Now a little closer to reality NASA has been holding a contest for four years four years to see who can create a space elevator. A team from Seattle finally not surprisingly from Seattle finally -- sending a robot -- the cable. To a helicopter more than half a mile in the air in just under four minutes. So how close are -- to really having an elevator to space. Landfill enough is the editor GPC mag dot com I hope I pronounce your last name right -- and -- I apologize my apologies. So that's spaced -- tell us a little bit about the the the winning space elevator what exactly does it look like and what what's the point of it."

" It certainly doesn't look like something you can ride on right now but it's really to robots and it's really proof of concept so it rot runs on -- cable -- cables connected to a helicopter right now. And that it's powered the really interesting thing about this devices it's powered by a laser beam shooting at photovoltaic. Cells on the bottom of the robots like keeps it running. And it basically made it up to the top -- like just over four minutes I guess which wasn't as fast as the -- competition really required they run 1900000. Dollars they could have won two million if they'd gone a lot faster. But you know again it's. It's just the start of what could possibly be a space elevator into space and -- reason that people always like -- the space elevator. A lot safer than strapping a rocket to -- behind."

" What happened I guess you know you're injured you're trying to get up to space quickly wanna you wanna get up there safely. An elevator and those seem like it might take a little bit longer than just you know it'll definitely yeah yeah it'll definitely take longer I mean a rocket you know the G force and -- rocket you know you."

" Heard about it it's incredible how fast you go up and an elevator is going to be slower it's going to be small -- May only take like one person -- one payload at a time. Yeah at this point scientists still -- that they've got strong enough cables to really sustained what would be. Probably 22 miles into space that's so far you have to go to actually get into space and then there's the placement of the elevator it has to be on the equator it has to be that big in space has to rotate in synchronization with the thing on the ground. A lot of hurdles to overcome and probably the most interesting thing to me is the guy who won one of the guys who runs a company -- a motive. Who won this competition doesn't actually think that space elevators leaving it. Our are practical what the white and I spent all this time working on it. Because they could be practical elsewhere in fact he thinks he -- from the moon. Too late into space because we often talk about possibly having some sort of space station on the -- that's the next step and if you do that and if you want to have a space elevator to a rotating. You know space. Area -- space station in space that's a possibility."

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" It's bizarre it's I mean I. Way to figure this out that'd get you might -- elevator escalated -- the space good -- people it is funky."