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Curious: How do you suggest funding to arrive? What is the net benefit to the stake holders?

• mahyarm 13y ago
  Cheaper rocket launches.
  • Houshalter 13y ago
    Couldn't you just launch off the top of a mountain?
  • adwn 13y ago
    No. Getting into space (starting at 100 km) is relatively easy. Staying in space, i.e. reaching orbit, is the hard part, because you need a very high speed to do this. xkcd's what-if #58 sums it up pretty well. But even then, 15 km would only be ~5% of a typical low earth orbit (LEO) of 300 km, so ... yeah, not worth it at all. This tower seems like a truly useless project. [1] http://what-if.xkcd.com/58/ http://what-if.xkcd.com/58/