Talk:International Space Elevator/@comment-25836465-20180918201723

Any chance that the 100,000 km distance is a typo? That would be about a quarter of the distance to our moon. A structure that big would take decades, if not the better part of a few centuries, to build. Plus, space is widely accepted to begin about 100 km above the surface, so is it possible that the person who said "100,000 km" just got a little overzealous and misspoke?