Originally Posted by Mutt

I googled the street their space observatory is on - it's a rural road with typical looking houses you find on rural roads all over the US and Canada, i didn't see anything that looked like a real observatory.

It's a husband and wife team, they seem to be legit in that he's an engineer and a professor at York U's school of engineering, they've both studied at Oxford so they're not complete kooks but I think they are dreamers and I bet if you asked anybody even remotely prominent in the international space industry on the government or private side that nobody would have heard of them.

Here they are in 2009 with another idea similar to this one, a space elevator that would take people, 1,000 people a day, up to the edge of space.

Canadian couple shoots for stars with space elevator | CTV News

Here's Mr. and Mrs. Galileo



and here are the other two in the company, the Head of Research and Development and Space Systems Specialist, whose bio says he's a 2 time basketball champion