Google X Reveals That Its Working On A Space Elevator

Google X , the laboratory of the Mountain View company , gave birth to moult projects, such as weather balloons for transmitting WiFi or Google Glass. Today, FastCompany website carries a report on secret projects in the lab. Crazy projects that will never see the day. Well, not right away. Google X is fixed no limits on its projects. Ainis FastCompany states that Mountain View worked , among others, on a draft Hoverboard . Yes, a Hoverboard , like those Back to the Future 2 . Skateboarding was floating above the ground with magnetic transmitters. Unfortunately, the project was abandoned , researchers failing to completely stabilize the camera . Similarly, the Google team has attempted to develop a space elevator . The space elevator , as its name suggests, is an elevator connecting the ground to the stratosphere. Widely used in science fiction , such a machine should emerge in the course of the twenty-first century , according to scientists. But it will not be that Google will. Indeed, to give life to such a project , it will develop a hundred times stronger metal than steel. Google has achieved some results with carbon nanotubes , but the project remains insurmountable. Google has put the project on sleep at the moment. FastCompany has made a real dive in the heart of Google X. If you are fluent in English , we encourage you to read this lengthy report findable at this address .

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