Japan building Elevator into Outer Space

Sounds great and all, but prolonged time in outer space causes your bones to become brittle.  Without gravity and stress on your limbs, your body will stop producing the things you need to keep your bones strong.  So until they can solve that problem I can’t see any of us hanging out in space anytime soon. 

However the benefits are obvious.  Being able to take materials into space and create huge solar powered generators with very little effort is pretty amazing.  Although this makes it sound more like a dumping ground for waste:

“In the carriages, the scientists behind the idea told The Times, could be any number of cargoes. A space elevator could carry people, huge solar-powered generators or even casks of radioactive waste. The point is that breaking free of Earth’s gravity will no longer require so much energy — perhaps 100 times less than launching the space shuttle. ”

It really is amazing though that we will have an elevator into space.  Next we’ll need fast food and snacks offered in the elevator, so you can grab a quick bite to eat while you’re on your trip to the moon.

Read the whole article here.