“Space elevators will make space travel cheap and easy” —Ahdok; BBC

Created by gwern on 2012-01-24; known on 2112-01-01

• gwern estimated 40% on 2012-01-24
• gwern said “http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16536598 skepticism mainly that space elevators will be built” on 2012-01-24
• Anubhav estimated 30% on 2012-01-24
• Elithrion estimated 65% on 2013-02-01
• lavalamp estimated 25% and said “Skepticism that our AI overlords will choose to do this.” on 2013-02-03
• JoshuaZ estimated 19% and said “Timespan is short and there are many other possible ways that cheap space travel might work (e.g. space fountains, launch loops). ” on 2013-02-04
• themusicgod1 estimated 50% on 2016-10-09
• pranomostro estimated 15% on 2018-12-15
• Baeboo estimated 35% on 2018-12-15