A Canadian company has been granted patents to realize a dream once relegated to science fiction. The ThothX Tower is a proposed space elevator with a seemingly plausible design that will be used to deliver astronauts into the stratosphere in order to make space flight all the more easier. And it will be open to tourists.
Move over Babel, there's a new tower in town.
Canada-based Thoth Technology was recently granted U.S. and U.K. patents for a space elevator reaching 12.5 miles into the sky.
The ThothX Tower is a proposed freestanding piece of futuristic, pneumatically pressurized architecture designed to propel astronauts into the stratosphere—where they can then be launched into space.
The tower would also likely be used to
