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The space elevator that would take eight days to climb
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Blasting rockets into orbit is violently expensive, so Japanese engineers genuinely want to build a 60,000-mile-long string to the stars. The logistical nightmare isn't just weaving the carbon nanotube cable; it’s deploying robotic cargo climbers that will literally crawl up the tether for eight days straight, powered by ground-based lasers shooting energy directly at their solar panels.
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