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Sci-fi-like space elevators could become a reality in the “next 2 or 3 decades”

InterestingEngineering

By Chris Young

Created: Nov 29, 2022 07:46 AM EST
 

The space elevator — a structure that reaches into the sky — might feel like a distant, farfetched concept, but it could be closer than we think.

In an op-ed for Scientific American, Physics professor Stephen Cohen at Vanier College in Montreal, Quebec, said he believes the sci-fi-like technology could be a reality within “the next two or three decades.”

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