🚀 Japan’s Jaw-Dropping Space Elevator Dream: Sci‑Fi Meets Reality 🌏 Brace yourself for the most audacious space project ever—Japan plans a space elevator by 2050, redefining travel to orbit, deep space, and maybe even Mars! 🏗️ What’s the Plan? Obayashi Corporation, renowned for building Tokyo Skytree, has announced a mind-blowing vision: a 96,000 km carbon-nanotube tether reaching geostationary orbit (36,000 km), anchored at sea-level Earth Ports, and stabilized with a massive 12,500-ton counterweight . A fleet of “Climbers”—robotic, wheel-driven elevators—will ascend along this tether, ferrying people and payloads at ~200 km/h, taking 7+ days to reach GEO . Construction begins ~2025, with full operational status targeted for 2050, subject to breakthroughs in long-scale carbon nanotube manufacturing by ~2030 . 💰 Game-Changer for Costs & Accessibility Driving down launch costs: from ~$22,000/kg (traditional rockets) to as low as $200/kg via elevator . Climate-friendly c...