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BEIJING, China (CNN) -- China surpassed the United States in 2008 as the world's top user of the Internet, according to a government-backed research group.

Nearly 91 percent of China's Internet users are surfing the Web with a broadband connection.

The number of Web surfers in the country grew by nearly 42 percent to 298 million, according to the China Internet Network Information Center's January report. And there's plenty of room for growth, as only about 1 in every 4 Chinese has Internet access.

The rapid growth in China's Internet use can be tied to its swift economic gains and the government's push for the construction of telephone and broadband lines in the country's vast rural areas, the report says.

The Chinese government wants phone and broadband access in each village by 2010.

Nearly 91 percent of China's Internet users are surfing the Web with a broadband connection -- an increase of 100 million from 2007. Mobile phone Internet users totaled 118 million by the end of 2008.

While China's Internet usage has been growing in leaps in bounds, the government limits the Web sites its citizens can visit.  Learn more about China's Internet censorship Â»

Earlier this month, China released a blacklist of 19 major online portals and Web sites, including Google and Baidu, that it claims provide and spread pornographic or obscene content. The move came as several Chinese government agencies, including the Ministry of Public Security, launched a month-long campaign to clean up the Web, according to the state-run Xinhua news service.

China has come under criticism for restricting Web access to ordinary citizens as well as on local and foreign media covering last year's summer Olympics in Beijing. The U.S. State Department noted in a 2008 report that China had increased its efforts to "control and censor the Internet, and the government had tightened restrictions on freedom of speech and the domestic press" and bloggers.

In an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria in September 2008, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said, "the freedom of Internet in China is recognized by many, even from the West."

"Nonetheless, to uphold state security, China, like many countries in the world, has also imposed some proper restrictions. That is for the safety, that is for the overall safety of the country and for the freedom of the majority of the people."

CNN's Yuli Yang contributed to this report.

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- The crown of the Statue of Liberty will re-open to tourists on July 4, the Interior Department said Friday.

The Statue of Liberty welcomes visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans.

The crown was closed after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, for safety and security reasons.

The National Park Service closed the attraction amid worries that it would be difficult for visitors to evacuate quickly in the event of an emergency.

Visitors must climb a narrow 168-step double-helix spiral staircase to get to the crown.

Since the closing, tourists have been able to visit other parts of the statue. iReport.com: Show us your best Statue of Liberty shots

The federal government planned to give "America a special gift" by re-opening the crown, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said.

"We are once again inviting the public to celebrate our great nation and the hope and opportunity it symbolizes by climbing to Lady Liberty's crown for a unique view of New York Harbor, where the forebears of millions of American families first saw the world," he said in a statement.

Access to the crown will be limited to 10 people at a time, guided by a National Park Service ranger.

"We cannot eliminate all the risk of climbing to the crown, but we are taking steps to make it safer," Salazar said.

The measures include raising the handrails on the spiral staircase and stationing rangers throughout the Statue to help visitors.

The Statue of Liberty will be open for the next two years, then closed again for "work on a long-term solution that will improve safety and security permanently," according to the U.S. Department of the Interior.

A gift from France to the United States, the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in 1886, designated as a National Monument in 1924 and restored for its centennial on July 4, 1986.

It stands just across New York Harbor from where the Twin Towers stood.

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(CNN)  -- Los Alamos National Laboratory announced Wednesday it is notifying nearly 2,000 current and former employees and visitors that they may have been exposed to beryllium in the lab and may be at risk of disease.

Officials are trying to determine the source of beryllium found at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

"Letters went out to all of them today," said Kevin Roark, a spokesman for the New Mexico laboratory.

Concern over possible exposure to the hard, gray metal, which is purified for use in nuclear weapons and reactors and also used in bicycle frames and golf clubs,  was first raised last November, when a box containing beryllium was received at the laboratory's short-term storage facility, he said.

"The package appeared to have damage or degradation of the packing materials, which prompted us to test the area for additional contamination," he said.

Surface contamination was found, but it turned out that the box was not the source, Roark said, adding that the source has not been determined.

Since the contaminated area had not been tested for the presence of beryllium since 2001, everyone who has entered the restricted-access area since then is being alerted, he said.

"It's just one building at one technical area," Roark said, noting that the laboratory covers 36 square miles and has nearly 10,000 employees.

Beryllium is hazardous only when its fine, particulate form is inhaled, he said. It was found on surfaces, not in the air, he said.  Find out more about beryllium Â»

Roark said the alert was sent because "we think it's the responsible, prudent thing to do to let people know we discovered this contamination and to answer their questions if they have any concern about potential for exposure."

There are no reports of sickness and "we don't expect anyone to be ill," he said.

The laboratory said about 240 employees and 1,650 visitors were potentially at risk because they visited the contaminated areas.

About 2 percent of the exposed employees could become sensitized, a smaller percentage of whom could develop chronic beryllium disease, Roark said.

Inhalation of powdered beryllium can result in chronic beryllium disease, which can impair lung function in people who are susceptible.

The risk to the visitors would be "extremely low" because of the activities they performed and their short exposure time, Roark said.

An operator will be available at the laboratory at 505-665-7233 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain Time, Monday through Friday.

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(CNN) -- A German top-division football match was called off on Saturday after the appointed referee apparently tried to commit suicide before the kickoff.

Cologne's game against Mainz was postponed when match official Babak Rafati failed to show up, the home team's website reported.

German Football Assocation president Theo Zwanziger called an emergency press conference at Cologne's RheinEnergieStadion to explain the situation.

"At 1345 I was informed that something terrible had happened," Zwanziger said.

Rafati, a German with Iranian ancestry, did not appear at midday for his scheduled appointment with his three assistants, who then went to his hotel room and opened it with the help of staff.

The 41-year-old was found inside in a "motionless" state, Zwanziger said. Police confirmed that no-one else was involved, and it is assumed that he tried to commit suicide.

"According to the information that I have, his state is stable," Zwanziger said. "He is no longer in critical condition and he is currently being treated in the intensive care unit."

Zwanziger said Rafati's assistants were receiving counseling after the incident, which came two years after the suicide of former Germany international goalkeeper Robert Enke.

Rafati had refereed in the Bundesliga since 2005, and was on the panel of FIFA's international officials from 2008 before being dropped this year, the AFP agency reported.

"The pressure in professional sports is unbelievably high. We just don't manage to bring the right balance into it. No-one should be in such a hopeless situation," said Zwanziger, who promised to provide support for Rafati's family and colleagues.

Saturday's other Bundesliga matches were played as scheduled.

Bayern Munich's lead was reduced to two points after a 1-0 home defeat by defending champions Borussia Dortmund.

Teenage midfielder Mario Gotze score the only goal in the 65th minute to put Dortmund second on 26 points, above Borussia Monchengladbach on goal difference.

Gladbach crushed fifth-placed Werder Bremen 5-0 as Marco Reus scored a hat-trick, while Schalke moved up to fourth with a 4-0 win at home to Nuremberg thanks to a double from Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and another goal from veteran Spanish strike partner Raul.

Wolfsburg moved clear of the relegation zone with a 4-1 win over Hanover, while third-bottom Freiburg snatched a 2-2 draw against visiting Hertha Berlin as Stefan Reisinger scored his second goal five minutes into time added on.

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(CNN)  -- The man arrested for the videotaped rape of a toddler in Las Vegas, Nevada, will make his initial appearance in court Friday, a Clark County, Nevada, court official told CNN Tuesday.

Authorities have not yet decided if Chester Arthur Stiles will appear in person or via video link. The judge will set a date for the arraignment at that hearing.

Stiles, 37, was taken into custody Monday night after a Henderson, Nevada, police officer pulled over the white Buick Century he was driving.

A former girlfriend of Stiles' said that, before the arrest, she lived in fear after going to police to identify the suspect after seeing enhanced photos from the videotape on the local news.

"I've had my share of nightmares," Elaine Thomas told CNN's Nancy Grace.

Thomas said she screamed when she recognized the photos on television and had no choice but to contact police about the man she had thought was a "weapons enthusiast" with only a minor criminal record.  Watch Thomas say how she felt when she saw the photos Â»

"How could I not tell them who that man was? That little girl suffered unimaginable things, and I knew for a fact it was him," Thomas said.

The judge in the case will hold an administrative hearing Wednesday, but Stiles will not be present, Clark County court spokesman Michael Sommermeyer said.

Stiles was already being sought on an unrelated 2004 charge of felony lewdness with a child under 14, Sommermeyer said, adding that authorities amended that earlier filing on October 4 to include 20 counts related to the videotaped rape, including sexual assault and attempted sexual assault.

Jerry T. Donohue, the attorney for the girl's mother, told CNN that the child on the videotape was younger than 3 when the abuse occurred.

Henderson Police Officer Mike Dye said he pulled over Stiles' car Monday night because it did not have a license plate and became suspicious when the driver gave him an expired California driver's license with a photo that did not look like him.

Dye said he and another officer, Mike Gower, questioned Stiles until he admitted his identity.

"He finally told us, 'Hey, I'm Chester Stiles. I'm the guy you're looking for,'" Dye said. "At that time, he said, 'I'm sick of running.'"

Dye said Stiles was calm and cooperative.

Stiles, a resident of Pahrump, Nevada, was turned over to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and booked into the jail in Clark County, where he had been sought in connection with the videotape, which shows a girl being sexually assaulted.

The girl, who is now 7, was found last month after a nationwide search.

The tape was given to authorities by Darren Tuck, who told police he had found it in the desert five months before handing it over. Because of the delay, during which Tuck allegedly showed the tape to others, he faces charges of exhibiting pornography and possession of child pornography.

He turned himself in to authorities in Nye County, Nevada, earlier this month.

Professionals have evaluated the girl in the videotape since she was found, and she appears to be "healthy and fine and happy," her mother's attorney said this month.

The mother had not known her daughter had ever been victimized and was apparently oblivious to efforts to find her until late last month, Donohue said.

"A family friend called her and said, 'My God, you need to turn on the TV. I believe that is your daughter,' " Donohue said.

Donohue said the mother recognized Stiles, a former animal trainer.

The alleged abuse most likely occurred while the mother -- a single woman working six days a week -- was at work, Donohue said.

Another former girlfriend of Stiles', Tina Allen, said this month she thinks she is the reason Stiles came in contact with the girl and is "mortified" by the allegations against him.

"He said he'd been in the Navy and, you know, I was looking for a strong guy to represent to my sons what I thought they needed to be," Allen said.

Allen said she took Stiles to a crowded apartment where her son and daughter lived.

Also living in the apartment were a family friend and her daughter, the alleged assault victim. Todd Allen, Tina Allen's son, said he recognized his old apartment from scenes in the video.  E-mail to a friend

CNN's Ed Payne contributed to this report.

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question: What was Chester Arthur Stiles arrested for

answer: videotaped rape of a toddler

text: videotaped rape of a toddler

question: When is the first court appearance for Stiles?

answer: Friday,

text: Friday,

question: What was the suspects name?

answer: Chester Arthur Stiles

text: Chester Arthur Stiles

question: What is Chester Arthur Stiles age

answer: 37,

question: where did police find him?

answer: Henderson, Nevada,

text: Henderson, Nevada,

question: What did the suspect say?

answer: 'I'm sick of running.'"

text: 'I'm sick of running.'"

question: when does stiles have to make his court appearance?

answer: Friday,

text: Friday,

question: What did Stiles say according to an officer

answer: I'm the guy you're looking for,'"

text: I'm the guy you're looking for,'"

question: when will he go to court?

answer: Friday,

text: Friday,

question: When is the suspect making his initial court appearance?

answer: Friday,

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question: What did the suspect say to the officer?

answer: 'I'm sick of running.'"

text: 'I'm sick of running.'"

question: when was stiles arrested?

answer: Monday night

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question: When does Chester Arthur Stiles make his first court appearance

answer: Friday,

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question: what is the age of the man

answer: 37,

question: When is Chester Arthur Stiles making his initial court appearance

answer: Friday,

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answer: Friday,

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question: what is the age of Stiles?

answer: 37,

question: when is Arthur going to make his initial court appearance?

answer: Friday,

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question: What did Chester Arthur Stiles say to officers

answer: 'Hey, I'm

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question: what is Chester sick of?

answer: running.'"

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question: What was the reason why Stiles was arrested?

answer: videotaped rape

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(CNN) -- A man, incensed that a 6-year-old girl chose to walk through a path reserved for upper caste villagers, pushed her into burning embers, police in north India said Wednesday. She was seriously burned.

Dalits, or "untouchables," are victims of discrimination in India despite laws aimed at eliminating prejudice.

The girl is a Dalit, or an "untouchable," according to India's traditional caste system.

India's constitution outlaws caste-based discrimination, and barriers have broken down in large cities. Prejudice, however, persists in some rural areas of the country.

The girl was walking with her mother down a path in the city of Mathura when she was accosted by a man in his late teens, said police superintendent R.K. Chaturvedi.

"He scolded them both and pushed her," Chaturvedi said. The girl fell about 3 to 4 feet into pile of burning embers by the side of the road.

The girl remained in critical condition Wednesday.

The man confessed to the crime and was charged with attempted murder, Chaturvedi said.

The assault took place in India's Uttar Pradesh state, about 150 km (93 miles) south of Delhi. The state is governed by Mayawati, a woman who goes by one name and is India's most powerful Dalit politician.

Her Bahujan Samaj Party seeks to get more political representation for Dalits, who are considered so low in the social order that they don't even rank among the four classes that make up the caste system.

Hindus believe there are five main groups of people, four of which sprang from the body of the first man.

The Brahmin class comes from the mouth. They are the priests and holy men, the most elevated of the castes.

Next is the Ksatriyas, the kings, warriors and soldiers created from the arms.

The Vaisyas come from the thighs. They are the merchants and traders of society.

And the Sudras, or laborers, come from the feet.

The last group is the Dalits, or the "untouchables." They're considered too impure to have come from the primordial being. Untouchables are often forced to work in menial jobs. They drink from separate wells. They use different entry ways, coming and going from buildings.

They number about 250 million in India, about 25 percent of the population, according to the Colorado, U.S.-based Dalit Freedom Network.

"Dalits are seen to pollute higher caste people if they come in touch with them, hence the 'untouchables,'" the group says on its Web site. "If a higher caste Hindu is touched by, or even had a Dalit's shadow fall across them, they consider themselves to be polluted and have to go through a rigorous series of rituals to be cleansed."

Recent weeks has seen a rise in violence against Dalits in Uttar Pradesh, CNN's sister network, CNN-IBN, reported Wednesday. E-mail to a friend

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CHENNAI, India (CNN) -- Sipping a sweet lime juice on the rooftop bar of a designer hotel in Chennai, Vinod Harith looks the epitome of a relaxed, confident young Indian entrepreneur.

High hopes: Vinod, left, and Pramod Harith set up thier marketing outsourcing company.

But setting up his marketing outsourcing company just seven months ago was far from a relaxing experience. It's a recent memory that still provokes a momentary look of discomfort.

"It was just painful," he says with a wry smile.

It seems that despite the potential riches to be had by tapping in to all the talent, energy and potential in India, going it alone is still a unique experience in the country, even for those who are used to working there.

Multinational companies may be finding their path into the world of Indian business smooth, but that official approach hasn't trickled down to India's burgeoning business brains with billionaire aspirations.

"If you're a large company trying to set up a subsidiary and you want to set up in India, a lot of that bureaucracy has gone away, but not for an entrepreneur," says Harith who previously worked for Wipro Technologies.

From getting a bank account to securing a line of credit, the same rigid attitude from officialdom remains with decisions made at a glacial place.

"The government ministry has not been so fast to change. It's become easier, but still a lot of that thinking has not gone away," he said.

Harith and his brother Pramod even had trouble registering the name of their company, CMOaxis.

"We called the company CMOaxis, which stands for Chief Marketing Officer, but for a long time couldn't get the name approved by the registrar of companies here, because they said CMO means Chief Minister's Office. So we had a really tough time, just convincing people."

But for the 36-year-old Vinod seeing the bigger picture and potential of his company was worth of all the aggravation.

An October 2007 report into the marketing sector by First Research put its value at around $8 billion. A year on, the potential value might still be there, but tapping in to it during an economic downturn as investors and companies return to "studying the market" will be the big challenge.

"Despite so many global funds being in India it's still very difficult for a start-up to get funding."

It certainly is for first time entrepreneurs, as Harith suggests that those with a family history in business or politics where it's easier to secure backing find things much easier.

"In PR first generation entrepreneur successes are still there but you can count them on the fingers of one hand.

"The understanding just isn't there in a part of India that is more used to the garment industry and traditional forms of business," says Pramod Harith, Vinod's brother and business partner.

Different industries, same problems

700 miles (1,127 kilometers) away in Pune, Jesh Krishna Murthy is busy with his fledgling animation company Anibrain.

After 13 years working abroad he returned to India to find the same frustrations as the Hariths in setting up the business.

"If you are going to do business in India, there is a lot of red tape and corruption. You have to learn to deal with, but it is very frustrating. If you're caught up in some regulation and the laws are kind of ambiguous and there's no right or wrong the authorities can give you a lot of trouble," he said.

If you can't deal with it, then you're doing business in the wrong country. It is stupid, but part and parcel of being in India."

Krishna Murthy brought much of Anibrain's business contacts with him, doing post-production graphics on films such as "Lust Caution" John Woo's "Red Cliff" and big budget Hollywood flicks, much of the hard work comes in maintaining quality.

"Getting the job is the easier part; it's delivering it to the quality that's expected and with the service levels that expected that the harder part. We work on that day in and day out," he said.

Having worked abroad he has an acute understanding of the differences between various work cultures and attitudes and the thought of working for a graphics company in India was almost unthinkable.

"There was no lack of talent in terms of the animators, but the way in which the animation studios were managed was lacking.

"I found it disheartening that the people who were managing these companies only cared about the hardware and how much money was pumped into the software, forgetting that it's about people. I would have gone crazy working for people like that, especially having worked abroad," he said

At Anibrain employees have a five-day week and something closer to a 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. working day, compared to the more typical Indian routine of working 6 days a week, starting at 1pm and working until around midnight.

With a more western work culture at Anibrain, Krishna Murthy's company is still in the minority, although Pune has become something of a creative design hub attracting similar companies with like-minded attitudes, thanks to it's proximity to Mumbai, but better quality of life, and the high quality of its universities and training colleges.

Changing attitudes

Facing rigid attitudes from clients has been a challenge for both Krishna Murthy and the Hariths, but there is the potentially bigger task of changing attitudes closer to home.

"The mindset has changed in South India, thanks to the growth in the IT sector here and rise in entrepreneurs. Until this happened, doing business was not thought of as a very hot thing to do -- in traditional families in South India, if you're doing business then there's something wrong with you," said Harith.

Vinod and Pramod were both born and raised in Chennai and the desire to blaze their own trail and be part of the positive changes to business and society in their hometown was one of their motivating forces.

For Krishna Murthy the pains, pitfall but pleasures of setting up shop in India are all worth the effort:

"For me it was challenge. I wanted to be in India and to do the kind of high end film graphics that you would have thought couldn't be done in India with Indian talent that hadn't been as trained. To do it you have to be a bit of a sadist, but that's part of the charm of India."

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- A new space race is officially under way, and this one should have the sci-fi geeks salivating.

Lift to space: This is a NASA interpretation of what a space elevator may look like.

The project is a "space elevator," and some experts now believe that the concept is well within the bounds of possibility -- maybe even within our lifetimes.

A conference discussing developments in space elevator concepts is being held in Japan in November, and hundreds of engineers and scientists from Asia, Europe and the Americas are working to design the only lift that will take you directly to the one hundred-thousandth floor.

Despite these developments, you could be excused for thinking it all sounds a little far-fetched.

Indeed, if successfully built, the space elevator would be an unprecedented feat of human engineering.

A cable anchored to the Earth's surface, reaching tens of thousands of kilometers into space, balanced with a counterweight attached at the other end is the basic design for the elevator.

It is thought that inertia -- the physics theory stating that matter retains its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force -- will cause the cable to stay stretched taut, allowing the elevator to sit in geostationary orbit.

The cable would extend into the sky, eventually reaching a satellite docking station orbiting in space.

Engineers hope the elevator will transport people and objects into space, and there have even been suggestions that it could be used to dispose of nuclear waste. Another proposed idea is to use the elevator to place solar panels in space to provide power for homes on Earth.

If it sounds like the stuff of fiction, maybe that's because it once was.

In 1979, Arthur C. Clarke's novel "The Fountains of Paradise" brought the idea of a space elevator to a mass audience. Charles Sheffield's "The Web Between the Worlds" also featured the building of a space elevator.

But, jump out of the storybooks and fast-forward nearly three decades, and Japanese scientists at the Japan Space Elevator Association are working seriously on the space-elevator project.

Association spokesman Akira Tsuchida said his organization was working with U.S.-based Spaceward Foundation and a European organization based in Luxembourg to develop an elevator design.

The Liftport Group in the U.S. is also working on developing a design, and in  total it's believed that more than 300 scientists and engineers are engaged in such work around the globe.

NASA is holding a $4 million Space Elevator Challenge to encourage designs for a successful space elevator.

Tsuchida said the technology driving the race to build the first space elevator is the quickly developing material carbon nanotube. It is lightweight and has a tensile strength 180 times stronger than that of a steel cable. Currently, it is the only material with the potential to be strong enough to use to manufacture elevator cable, according to Tsuchida.

"At present we have a tether which is made of carbon nanotube, and has one-third or one-quarter of the strength required to make a space elevator. We expect that we will have strong enough cable in the 2020s or 2030s," Tsuchida said.

He said the most likely method of powering the elevator would be through the carbon nanotube cable.

So, what are the major logistical issues keeping the space elevator from being anything more than a dream at present?

Massachusetts Institute of Technology aeronautics and astronautics Professor Jeff Hoffman said that designing the carbon nanotube appeared to be the biggest obstacle.

"We are now on the verge of having material that has the strength to span the 30,000 km ... but we don't have the ability to make long cable out of the carbon nanotubes at the moment." he said. "Although I'm confident that within a reasonable amount of time we will be able to do this."

Tsuchida said that one of the biggest challenges will be acquiring funding to move the projects forward. At present, there is no financial backing for the space elevator project, and all of the Japanese group's 100-plus members maintain other jobs to earn a living.

"Because we don't have a material which has enough strength to construct space elevator yet, it is difficult to change people's mind so they believe that it can be real," he said.

Hoffman feels that international dialogue needs to be encouaraged on the issue. He said a number of legal considerations also would have to be taken into account.

"This is not something one nation or one company can do. There needs to be a worldwide approach," he said.

Other difficulties for space-elevator projects include how to build the base for the elevator, how to design it and where to set up the operation.

Tsuchida said some possible locations for an elevator include the South China Sea, western Australia and the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. He said all of those locations usually avoided typhoons, which could pose a threat to the safety of an elevator.

"As the base of space elevator will be located on geosynchronous orbit, [the] space elevator ground station should be located near the equator," he said.

Although the Japanese association has set a time frame of the 2030s to get a space elevator under construction -- and developments are moving quickly -- Hoffman acknowledges that it could be a little further away than that.

"I don't know if it's going to be in our lifetime or if it's 100 or 200 years away, but it's near enough that we can contemplate how it will work."

Building a space elevator is a matter of when, not if, said Hoffman, who believes that it will herald a major new period in human history.

"It will be revolutionary for human technology, and not just for space travel. That's why so many people are pursuing it," he said. "This is what it will take to turn humans into a space-bearing species."

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question: How many are working on the elevator project?

answer: 100-plus

question: Date that the group has set to being construction?

answer: 2020s or 2030s,"

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question: Who is trying to design a space elevator?

answer: NASA

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question: What is the target to begin construction?

answer: 2030s

question: How many people does Japan have working on its space elevator?

answer: 100-plus