==History==The concept originated in a conversation on a computer net in the 1980s when scientists Marvin Minsky of MIT, John McCarthy, and Hans Moravec of Stanford, speculated about variations on the skyhook concept with Roderick Hyde and Lowell Wood, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Space fountain) je predlagana struktura, ki bi se uporabljala za transport tovora in ljudi iz Zemlje v vesolje in obratno.