really big towers

Another cheap orbital insertion idea: lets build some towers. Big
ones, dwarfing anything on earth today. I am talking about a tower
22300 miles high. Three of them, in fact. To top it off, how about
a space station with a radius of 42240 km? Want to go to orbit? Just
hop on the elevator to the geosynchronous ring.

The towers would have to be flexible, lightweight, etc, but once the
geosynchronous ring is complete, its own mass would hold the towers
up! In fact, the towers would probably be built after the
geosynchronous ring, literally top-down.

Think big,

:) ed