There are a lot of things in our everyday life that are holdovers from an earlier time that we continue to use simply because of inertia even if they don’t make a lot of sense in modern times.

But this Kickstarter project aims to fund research that will eventually make a space elevator possible. They’re already way over their goal, and plan to ... the air and to build a new robot ...

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Why build a space elevator? "The space elevator will reduce the cost of getting from Earth to space. It will also allow us to take very large payloads into space very easily, very safely.