>>10007756it's theoretically doable, not practical or feasible
we have not confirmed whether or not diamond nanothreads or graphene are capable of handling the strain, they may not be strong enough
then we have to figure out how to mass produce the material on a level that exceeds most other material industries and get to that mass production level as fast as possible, a thing that would probably take decades at the minimum, even if we had the blueprints for all the machinery on hand already, which we don't
then you have the issue of environmental corrosion and weather damage to the elevator, from hurricanes down on earth to micrometeorite impacts in space, to omnipresent radiation damage, which may make an elevator not economical due to constant maintenance shutdowns if the damage happens to be more significant than we expected
there's a lot of engineering that needs to go into this, and we've done none of it so far past general ideas on napkins for fun
