OT: About Space Elevators

[dogscoff]

I can imagine a little (huge) oceanic platform where cargo liners (and maybe cruise ships) come to load and unload cargo,

Heh, that's a good point. HOw to get stuff to/ from the floating platform? Boats, sure, but boats are slow. It would be quite ironic if something this high tech revitalised some older technologies like flying boats & airships.