Lot of talk about how 1. a Moon elevator is pointless without an Earth elevator, and 2. we can't build an Earth elevator with today's technology. However we

Lot of talk about how 1. a Moon elevator is pointless without an Earth elevator, and 2. we can't build an Earth elevator with today's technology. However we can build an orbital ring around Earth with today's technology, and it'd be much better than space elevators. [Video] https://youtu.be/LMbI6sk-62E?t=254 https://youtu.be/LMbI6sk-62E?t=254 [Paper] https://jenda.hrach.eu/f2/Low%20cost%20design%20of%20an%20orbital%20ring%20-%202017-1.pdf#page=5 https://jenda.hrach.eu/f2/Low%20cost%20design%20of%20an%20or...