[Fatuncle]

You know, in all seriousness, I have never seen any group or individual address a major problem of the space elevator concept - orbital debris. I cannot understand how any strand stretching from the ground to a point way the hell out beyond geosync, all other problems being solved, can survive a collision with a chunk of trash moving at orbital velocities.

And how the dickens are you going to deal with an increasingly crowded sky, when every satellite in it orbits at or below geosync? In A C Clarke's story, the sky is swept. How are we to do that?

Or is it a case of solve the problems you can now, and hope the solutions for the ones you can't will come along later?

[Louis Foxwell]

Or is it a case of solve the problems you can now, and hope the solutions for the ones you can't will come along later?

Well, DUH!
How is it possible to solve problems that are unforeseen or do not yet exist?