Space elevators

[PictoKong]

Since we will see ladders being implemented into 0.16, i feel i need to ask you a question:

It seems, right now, we could attempt to make an elevator to put things into orbit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator

1. Do you think KSP should implement this someday somewhere (late development, or even a mod, i dunno)

2. In reality, space is full of junk and other debris, do you think it would be a good idea, in the real world, to build such a thing if it is to get destroyed by an orbiting bolt?

[MaverickSawyer]

You\'re worried about a BOLT?!?! what about Jeb\'s spent booster!

[Endeavour]

A mod can do whatever it wants. If a modder wants to make this then they can. I don\'t think KSP needs this because it is a game about launching rockets.

And if it would be destroyed by a bolt, then they should not build it because people don\'t put expensive things into space only for them to be destroyed.

[PLB]

KSP isn\'t, I don\'t think, about building rockets, it\'s about making things and testing things and seeing if things work, etc. So I think a space elevator would be fine. Obviously It isn\'t about rockets any more with .15\'s Hanger update!

[Menelmacar]

I imagine when we have .16 (ladders and EVA\'s specifically) SOMEONE is going to make a ladder to a kerbo-synced satellite, somehow. This will inevitably lead to space elevators - to the naysayers: you must not realise how impossibly cool space elevators are, generally if you ask a secondary school physics teacher (while in secondary school) about such a thing they just sigh wistfully and say yep it\'d be just about the best thing ever.

[Khrissetti]

A Space Elevator would be a fantastically cool development, in KSP or otherwise. It would help to build the interplanetary ships that some naysayers have said is impossible.

Debris need not be a serious problem, the space around Kerbin is masive and the strand of the elevator would only need to be about a metre in diameter. If there were any concerns then the player could always mount sunbeam lasers in high-traffic areas (For me that\'s between about 80-120km)