not trying to be negative here but the space elevator may not work. if its anchored ground it would be vunerable to multepule natrual ocurances. whay if a earthquack hit, herican, average lightning storm, etc. there is also man made effects such as terrorisom, miss calculation, maintanence, planes, etc. yes the elevatour would have a mandetory disstance for planes. it would need maintanence almost affter every use.the earth quacks can take out the ground station. hericans may pull the space station out of orbit or break the cord/elevator.
i do like the idea of the eleavator but there are plenty of issues...
im wondering if we can build the elevator but insted of the ground station there is one up in the air that has airports where helicopers, planes, etc. can land on. has some kind of lift to keep it up. would blimp styles work, multiple large helicopter blades(not shear what that is again). or something like that. it wont be effected by earthquacks. it can move so if hericans are heading in. but the issues with this is stability, maitanence, ordinary storms, weight, and so on.
sorry about any spelling issues
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