Team Wins Nearly $1 Million In Space Elevator Games

Washington (dbTechno) – A team from Seattle has managed to win $900,000 in the Space Elevator Games.

The Space Elevator Games were backed by NASA and were a major competition to try and develop a way in which we could build an elevator to take people up to space.

The Space Elevator Games ended with the team from Seattle coming up with something truly impressive.

They had a robot race around 3,000 feet into the air on a cable that was held up by a helicopter.

The belief is that someday this technology will lead to an elevator that could lead all the way up to space.

The elevator was powered by a laser on the robots cells that converted the light into electricity.

It took roughly 4 hours for the robot to climb up that high overall.

This was alle ncouraged by the 1979 novel The Fountains of Paradise.

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