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Japanese Construction Company Plans Space Elevator By 2050
Tokyo Sky Tree Obayashi Corp. plans to build a space elevator by 2050. The company is days away from completing this structure, the Tokyo Sky Tree, which will be Japan's tallest building at 2,080 feet high. tsushima2011 via Flickr Space elevators have been our shared dream for years, but like other promising technologies of the future, they're just concepts on a distant horizon. Now a Japanese construction firm that specializes in the very tall could make them a reality. By 2050, so still pretty far on that horizon, but hey,...
Published By: Popular Science - Wednesday, 22 February
