Google Alerts: Technology.

We, in this grand age, have so much   

Amazing Technology

That we just don't know exactly what to do with.

This website that popped up in my alerts (which just so happens to be another persons blog... i think..) claims that:

"We already have the technology to send trains into space, at a fraction of the cost of rockets"

 The talk, is that apparently it's being proposed that a launch system, Startram, (if passed) will use mag. lev. trains, a 1000mi tunnel, and a superonducting cable to reach low Earth orbit; and all of this is assumingly going to cost a lot less than any rocket.

My question, though, is why do we need to send these things into space? To clutter up the outside universe like we already have done to our own planet? What is the point?

And the answer is: The world may never know... V_V,

Also:

"To build a passenger-carrying version of this Startram system, the team estimates it would take 20 years and $60 billion - which may sound like a lot, but when you consider it took almost three times that much to get the space shuttle off the ground, it's a steal. And once it's built, it would only cost $50 per kilogram to send things into orbit, compared to the current rates of $10,000 per kilogram for cargo and $100,000 per kilogram for people. That means a ticket to space would only cost about $5,000, and the designers estimate the accident rates would be on par with modern airliners."

 just one more thing to think about! :/