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Comment · 12 years ago
It's a joke that the media has continued to dig and dig on as a serious consideration.
Google X's Chief of Moonshots (effectively the CEO), Astro Teller, alludes to the space elevator being a fun joke in his SXSW 2013 speech [1], including confirmation of it never being taken seriously by the team.