One fine day, magical space aliens arrived and launched and harpooned an extremely long(100,000 km) and thick(100km radius) spear into somewhere in equatorial Africa, which buried and anchored itself via large barbs. It penetrated 3000km into the Earth. The aliens then left as mysteriously as they arrived.
The spear is made of an alien material, and is indestructibly strong. Efforts to cut out pieces of it for testing or used in any other way has been completely useless. The spear is also clearly strong enough to support its own weight despite its hugenormous size and presumably weight.
A group of philanthropists, including a Elon Musk-expy and Bill Gates-expy then walks up and buys the land surrounding the spear and the spear itself, and they plan to use it as a foundation to build a space elevator.
What are the problems that will be faced for the philanthropists in their efforts to bring space to humanity, in terms of politics? How difficult might it be for them to be able to procure the spear for themselves, or might the government not allow it? Would the country in which the spear landed in be able to have full claims to it?
Notes:
- The Spear, being a spear has a grooved grip the entire length of the shaft, which allows for things to be attached to it.
- The Spear is practically massless. They can't really check if it is actually massless, but nothing too terrible happened
- The Spear is indestructible, it was magic space aliens who placed it there, after all
