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Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games

The contest is intended to encourage development of a theory that originated in the 1960s and was popularized by Arthur C. Clarke's 1979 novel "The Fountains of Paradise." Full Article at Belleville News-Democrat

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