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NS REVEALS FINAL DESIGN FOR SPACE ELEVATOR

EU Hopes Massive Infrastructure Project Will Revive Economy

By JOP DEJONG

CENTRIFUGAL FORCE

COUNTER WEIGHT GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT

UNIVERSAL GRAVITY

EURO FALLS AGAIN

By AMY LEIBNIZ

The euro exchange rate fell again in trading on Thursday, continuing the trend that has disappointed many European investors for years.

The current value stands at 0.05 euro per USD and and 0.5 e uro per chinese yuan. This is down 1% from last year’s exchange rate and down 200% from the rate in 2020.

Stock market experts blame the decreasing industrial output of Europe, the unregulated commerce of South Asia, and the migration of business across all sectors to other parts of the world.

“I’m quite worried,” remarked Albert Heinz, economist for The Guardian in London. “Things just keep getting worse for us over here.”

European investors are getting more depressed about the situation, though the space elevator plans promise to change everything.

Volkswagen Relocates Headquarters to Mexico City

By JOHN SLOETERDIJK

Speaking from a press conference in Oaxaca, Volkswagen CEO Cesar Gutierrez announced the relocation of the company’s headquarters to a business park outside of Mexico City. He cited the increasing cost of operation in Europe, building expenses, and important business partners as reasons for this relocation.

Experts in the European car industry are not suriprsed by this move as it only officially marks the company’s stake in the region.

Schiphol Business Park Planned to House Tourists, Offices, Goods

By ADAM RUSSELL

To provide space for the massive flux of goods and people that will be moving through the space elevator terminal, a massive business park is being developed south of the elevator secured area. An estimated 10 square km will be developed Vo l k for this purpose. The area is now wagen mostly farmland on the state has opborder with Utrecht. erated A master plan of this area plants in has been developed by DGTSG, Mexico since the early 1980s in order to reduce costs and reach a young but well-experienced new markets.

The company now has forty-two factories in Mexico, Guatemala, Thailand, India, China, and Vietnam. (continued on 4)

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Bold Vision for Space: A competition rendering for the elevator (above left).

Consutrction has already begun on the massive foundation (above right top). A diagram of how the elevator is supported by the centrifugal force of earth’s rotation (above right bottom).

Election Prediction In a unsurprising poll released yesterday, the conservative candidate Gerhard Schult is predicted to easily win in the election for Prime Minister of Germany.

More details on the election on page 6.

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The counter weight provides the resistance force for the space elevator against the universal gravity, thus balances it in the air.

LENGTH OF RAILROAD PER COUNTRY NETHERLANDS

FRANCE

GERMANY

3000 km 30000 km 41000 km 86000 km

CHINA

226000 km

USA

35000 km GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT

Space Railroad: The distance to geosynchronous orbit isn’t far compared to the railroad already laid on earth.

Population Aging Continues as Predicted

Dutch urbanism firm based in Rotterdam. The current model suggests over 10 million tourists will spend at least one night in a hotel here before or after their journey into space. In addition, hundreds of businesses will require space for retail, offices,

By SANDRA LOPEZ manufacturing, and storage, EU residents are not both to serve the tourist masses and to independently organize pleased to hear the most recent census report that again displays goods to ship to space. the population trends towards lower population, older median age, and increased presence of immigrant communities.

According to the EU, the average age of a European is 51.2 years old. Compared to other averages from around the world (USA: 35.1, China: 24.5, India: 17.9), this makes the population seem ancient and irrelevant in modern society.

Total population fell in all countries except Greece and other eastern European countries which saw minimal increases due to immigration as a result of climate change.

The Netherlands, for example, The President Mourns: American President Olayah at the grave of an Iraq vetonly has 10 million people and eran during ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of America’s exit from Iraq. its density has dropped further

In a press conference in Leiden at an NS research facility, NS leader Jacques Bataille revealed the final designs for the space elevator already under construction south of Amsterdam.

“Europe has faded from the global spotlight and is now seen as outdated and old,” remarked Bataille in a remarkably radical and metaphorically charged speech.

“This project promises to establish Europe again as a center for global trade, tourism, and science.”

In drawings, renderings, and animations from architecture firm Yang + Murphy (based in Boston and Shanghai) the slender set of carbon nanotube cables stretches 35,000 kilometers into the sky, anchored in a massive counterweight the size of Belgium. Material for the counterweight comes from the belt of space junk that is already orbiting the planet so no energy will be used to move material into space. Construction of this hunk of trash has been underway in secret for the past three years. Orbits occur at periodic intervals along the cable, used for emergency stops, hotels, ultra-expensive luxury apartments, industrial use, and science labs.

The space elevator will be constructed on polders east of Schiphol and will provide convenient access to space for tourism, business, and scientific research. A wide array of interests and activities will be satisfied with this project. Rockets to move satellites into space became obsolete in 2025 when fuel prices because unbearably high, severely cutting into improvements in the wireless network that covers the planet.

Scientists are excited about the potential of harvesting solar energy in space, an application that will be quickly developed once the elevator begins making trips in 2046.

Tourism is also an important topic. Since the New Mexico Spaceport, built by Virgin Intergalactic, opened in 2012, leisure flights to space are now a commonplace activity.

Over 20 space stations are in various orbits around the planet, providing an estimated 20 million passengers with galactic experiences every year.

The space elevator will make connections to these facilities easy with its 10-hour regular journey or 6-hour accelerated trip (only for individuals with strong stomachs and between the ages of 16 and 40).

The effects of this historic project remain to be seen when it becomes operational, but they will doubtlessly restate Europe’s importance as a leader in the modern world.

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March to Space: New Opportunities istry, and biological physics.

Reseach institutions around the world are already scrambling to assemble programs and secure financing for expeditions into

By YURI CZANSKY space.

The potential for space More commerciallyeconomy is a major topic of minded scientists are already discussion in the European business world.

It is, however, not a new topic. Research in space has been carried out since the 1970s and more recently new aircraft models have allowed easier transit of goods and people into orbit. And now, with the space elevator, this voyage will become hypothesizing a new system far more cheaper and reliable. of solar arrays and hydroponic Scientists at the ETH in satellites for ultra-efficient food Zurich speculate that the low- production. Other companies gravity conditions of space sta- are focusing on the recycling tions are prime conditions for and aggregation of space junk new types of experiments on al- (trash, old satellites) into usable gal growth, genetics, biochem- masses both for counterweights

Space Elevator Promises Economic Boom

Carbon Nanotube Cables to Be Produced at Dutch Facility

By PAULA TAYLOR

Benzolyne has announced that its manufacturing plant outside of Dordrecht will be the main site for carbon nanotube cable production. This is not a surprised considering the company’s heavy campaigning for the comission and the imporant work done on the topic at the nearby Technical University of Delft.

Carbon nanotubes are a contemporary marvel. Their tensile strength is far greater than any currently known material, however the production process is considerably more intricate. As-

New Study Supports Cost Effective Space Solar Arrays

By WILLIAM MAAS

In the most recent issue of Nature, a study by L. Subramanian and James McCoy provides a realistic model for harnessing solar energy in space. The paper provides tested results about efficient geometries and transmission methods back to Earth.

The current energy economy is in a state of crisis, a situation wellknown since oil prices began increasing heavily around 2025. Wind

farms are now booming but cannot meet demands in all parts of the world. Solar energy on earth has largely been abandoned due to the toxic chemicals involved and low efficiencies.

Nuclear power is one topic that holds the most promise for terrestrial power but it remains a stigmatized topic in public debate because of the radioactive waste and scale of potential problems.

Space solar is attractive because all of the infrastructure is far away but in an area where the sun’s radiation is constant and much stronger than on the earth’s surface. The main problem remains how to transit the energy back to earth without large losses. Cables are not efficient enough and the current technology works using microwaves to transfer the energy back to receivers on earth.

sembly begins first at the molecular level where cylindrical carbon rings are joined . The geometry at this scale is the key to the material’s strength. Once a microscopic strand is complete, thousands are woven together in a sequence generated by a computer algorithm. After this step, the result is only the size of a human hair. The process is repeated until the cables grow to almost one meter in diameter. The space elevator will use nine meter-thick cables for support.

The factory will be working furiously in the coming months to fabricate the almost 500,000 km of cables needed in the project.

Rockets Become Unpractical Due to Fuel Costs

By SANRO PERETTI

The space elevator will be the death of rockets. Rockets now are outdated machines, relying on fossil fuels to power their ascent into order. Attempts to find new fuel sources such as hydrogen fuel cells or the use of biodiesel have proven unsuccessful.

As oil prices rise above 100 euros per barrel, all rocket trips have been canceled in the past eight months. Previously, as many as twenty rockets a day departed from earth to deliver supplies and people to space stations. Commercial spaceports face bankruptcy unless new sources of income are found.

NASA, for example, has been trying to cut costs by reducing the weight of its space shuttles. It now longer carries as much equipment, fresh water, and computer systems. Radios are not included for the enjoyment of astronauts. Only vegetarian meals are served. This has helped to reduce the cost per flight by 11% but this still not enough to make flights economical. While rockets remain grounded, the space elevator is the next hope for galactic flight.

The Space Elevator Center is located 1km away from Schipol Airport, which is connected by a free automatic pedestrian deck.

attached to counter weight

all functions are hidden under 3.07km2 green roof

space research, maintenance

accessible from 12 ifferent entrances

carbon-nanotube cable length: 36,000km

single trip: 3.33hrs acceleration: 1G acceleration time: 300s maglev space shuttle

top speed: 3km/s

hybrid of terminal, research center, distribution hub Burj Dubai (Dubai)

foundation depth: 1km

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Infrastructure Renovation: In order to deal with the extreme increase of goods and people going to Schiphol, numerous improvements to transit systems are already underway. Shipping lanes are being dredged and ports at Rotterdam are expanding to handle almost double the number of containers (top). Railways are being improved and expanded, both for freight and commercial transit.

The average trip time from Berlin to Schiphol will decrease by 75 minutes (middle). Commercial flight routes will increase by 60%, making Schiphol the busiest airport in the world (bottom).

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Space Tourism, Already a Booming Industry, Set to Grow Over 100 Million Astronauts Per Year, and Counting

By JOSIAH OWINAKA

Space tourism is the tourism of the future. Tourism is a huge industry, accounting for almost 30% of the global GDP in recent years. It has even increased despite escalated environmental problems; most experts attribute this to theory that people are trying to “go while they still can” to see exotic parts of the world.

Tourism into orbit is a not a necessarily new concept or business model. In the early 2000s, an American singer trained and participated in a Russian space mission. Private

New Exhibit at the Kunsthal Protests the Domestication of Space

By HENRY LAO

Opening on July 24, Rotterdam’s premiere museum showcases a series of pieces that explore our cultural relationship to outer space. Artists of multiple generations were invited to create new works specifically for this exhibition in response to the construction of the first space elevator.

Most of the work is highly critical, arguing that an even heavier increased human presence in space ruins its symbolic value as the final wilderness left on earth. Filling a whole room, Anselm Kiefer’s Stars the Size of Golden Pollen scatters

aircrafts with the ability for high atmosphere or even outer space altitudes were developed rapidly as a industry feeding off of the military interests in developed countries.

In 2012, the first private spaceport opening in the New Mexican desert, designed by Foster + Partners and financed

by Virgin CEO Richard Branson. This departure point provided exclusive access to Virgin Intergalactic and was wildly successful when it began offering flights into zero gravity environments. Numerous other companies quickly began offering weightless excursions but none ventured deep into space.

The international space station, a research center set

on geosynchronous orbit, was fully operational in 2019, setting the stage again for private development of space stations.

As nations struggled to work out the legality of these endeavors, space as a final frontier was wildly exploited.

The first private space station hotel opened in 2024, and though the fees were extremely high, it was still booked solid for its first four years of operation.

Within three years another four space stations had opening and currently there are 24 privatelyoperated facilities floating in orbit. More are planned for installation after the space elevator opens within the next decade.

pollen gathered from the artist’s home onto large canvases thick with blackness. It proves to be a powerful evocation of our mystic attraction to the heavens.

In another room, a younger Chinese artist challenges our perception of space as foreign territory. Lao Shan Yi, 27, provides an installation with familiar objects mysteriously floating in a dark ether. Tamburas drone idly and a scrawl on the wall reminds that we are all made of star dust.

This exhibit will remain at the Kunsthal until October 2.

Afterwards it will be traveling to the Tate Postmodern in London, the New New Museum in New York City, and the Beijing Contemporary Arts Center. It is expected that almost 500 million viewers will see the work during its tour, resparking an important debate about the symbolic meaning of our world.

Amsterdam New Wave of Immigrants Residents Already in Holland to Work on About Space Elevator Construction Complain Shadow

The First Spaceport: The New Mexico Spaceport, now 35 years old, was the first example of private companies offering flights to gravity-free altitudes. Later the business grew to include flights further into space and to luxury space station hotels.

By BILAL ISLAM

While construction progresses on the foundations for the space elevator, construction has also begun for the apartment blocks to house the workers who will build this world wonder.

An estimated 200,000 workers are swarming into the Netherlands to find work in the construction process of this massive project. In addition to the terminals, workers are building the hotels, business parks, and office space that will be used during when the project is in business.

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Guggenheim Opens a Branch at the Galactic Hilton Space Resort

By ERIKA O’KEEFE

Visible from Paris The view of the Eiffel Tower on a clear day is now changed forever as the space elevator is barely visible on the horizon.

The latest branch of the Guggenheim will become the first major art museum in space.

Opening in 2014 and designed

by Herzog & de Meuron, the gallery will be hosted inside the Galactic Hilton Space Resort, a vast luxury complex in geosynchronous orbit above the Caribbean Sea. The museum will house large works from the permanent collection and commissioned work crafted to specifically be experienced in space. Already the museum has announced that important works by Jeff Koons and Damian Hirst will be among the first to be exhibited in space.

There are no plans to install a recently acquired Richard Serra work, however, as it is too heavy to transport into orbit.

“I think the museum will become a great asset for the Galactic Hilton,” commented operational manager Richard Haskins. “It will provide yet another attraction for visits who want to relax in style at our space station facilities.”

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Design by Foster + Partners for Moon Colony Still Not Finished

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Entire Nation Resides on 206,102 Floors

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12:00 a.m., July 15, 2068, after 25 years’ operation, the first space elevator at Schipol, Amsterdam was put out of operation, confirmed by the authority of SEDG (Space Elevator Development Group) at Amsterdam.

The Space Center where the space elevator is located will be renovated into a space muse-

Photomontage of the future Space Museum

spaceNL, the First Vertical Country On the highest floors of spaceNL, residents enjoy an unrestricted view of space (above). The rest of the land in the Netherlands is again wild while residents are now living entirely in the atmosphere (right). In the estimation of accredited scientists Holland is the greenest nation by a vast margin.

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NL at Night There is one light in the Netherlands at night, dramatically altering its night-time shape.

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Dutch Not Surprised to Have the Densest, Greenest Footprint in the World

By ADRIANA SHAH

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Global GDP Up 3% from Last Year

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Forests on Upper Slabs Provides Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide Absorbtion

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Sports

Space Jam Competition Held This Weekend

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This Weekend Catch the opening of Timothy Zizek’s terrifying new drama onstage at the Teatro Maastricht at spaceNL. Or relax to the sounds of jazz from Venus as the klub12981 celebrates the music of Sun Ra.

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Current State of the Space Elevator Once Rare, This Infrastructure Now a Part of Everyday Life

INVESTIGATION OF SPACE ELEVATORS 2138 number of space elevators: 87 number of countries owning space elevator: 65 average GDP contribution(%): 15.7

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2025 Scientists at TUD discovered the hyper-strength carbon nanotube ,the fundamental material to build the cables.

2034 Construction on base for SENL begins.

2038 Final designs are announced; construction continues.

2043 Plans for a space elevator in Los Angeles are announced.

SHANGHAI

Newest Elevator in South Africa Decreases Travel Time to 1.7 Hrs

By HIROKI SUZUKI-AMA

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Latest Global GDP Figures Shows Heavy Reliance on Space Economy

By LI BAN PO

Now 75% of World’s Energy From Space Solar

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estiorerunt fugia sunt.

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TAXES 12% TOURISM 32%

RESEARCH 13% ENERGY 16% INDUSTRY 27%

2050 SENL becomes opera-

tional.

2058 Los Angeles space elevator becomes operational, plans for new elevators in China and Rio de Janeiro released.

2066 Intergalactic Trade and Safety Administration founded at the United Nations

2070 Peak revenue from

SENL, Dutch government begins to research updated business plans.

2078 Construction of slabs

around the SENL core to promote leisure and luxury apartments. Elevators in Beijing and Rio are now working.

2089 Slabs continue, plans

for five new elevators continue. Holland opens first casino at 600 m in the air as way to attract new tourists.

2108 There are now over 80 space elevators in operation. Due to polluted conditions on the ground in the Netherlands as a result of a century of heavy industry, residents begin moving into new apartments in spaceNL. the name spaceNL is coined.

The Dutch government offers tax incentives for citizens who relocate.

Growth and Decline Urban analysis shows the different city configurations. Amsterdam remains centralized as the elevator is constructed (2040). Just after the elevator opens, the city begins to spraw (2050). At its peak, the randstad metropolis grows continuously down to Rotterdam (2070). Later, the city center shifts to the space elevator as economy worsens (2100). And finally all of the citizens rise into the air (2135).

Amsterdam: (D)evolution Recent Study Reveals the Boom and Bust of the Randstad Metropolis in the Past Century

By JOSHUA HORNSMITH

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2131 The population of

spaceNL reaches 10 million residents. Continued tourism boosts the economy.

2138 It is discovered that the entire population of the Netherlands now lives on spaceNL, over 20 million citizens. The Dutch are proud of their reforested landscape and enjoy it as recreational wilderness. Transit still connects the base of the tower to other countries and to space.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 13 2138

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Space Basketball Championships Held Tomorrow Low Gravity Environment allows for Space Jam Dreams to Come True

By JOYCE DANIELS-RUBALEV

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What Do You Think of Your New Home?

“I like my studio apartment on the 123,689th floor. It gives a beautiful view of space and its close to the C100000.”

“I love it! It takes a while to get to the ground, but it has everything I need and is a surreal experience too! I dream free.”

“My place is small but cozy. I like the casinos and nightly shows.

The herb supply is solid too so I can’t complain.”

“At times I get a little sick of living in the sky, but the sun is unbeatable. My place is clean and near a main elevator stop.”

Space Jam All-star basketball players from around the world gather in the Kleine Sport Zaal to warm-up for the competition. Low gravity allows for big new moves.

Latest Drama from Van Hoek Details Dutch Rise From Below the Sea Into Stars

By GABRIEL DREISEN

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Now Wild Dutch Landscape Is a New Green World for spaceNL Residents to Explore

By THEODORE LEOPOLD

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Sri Lankan Tourist Scores 1.3B Euro at spaceNL Casino

By LUIGI ADORNO

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Many Moons Due to the numerous counterweights now in orbit, the earth has many articial moons in orbit. The night sky in Brussels now looks like an alien landscape.