PM_Me_The_Surprise
PM_Me_The_Surprise t1_ixykbvr wrote
Step 1: Produce 200 miles of a material that has the tensile strength to handle the load of 60 miles of weight and can also handle the wildly fluctuating temperature of space.
Step 2: Get it up there and in synchronous orbit.
Step 3: Unroll it
Step 4: Attach it to earth?
Yeah, this is really starting to sound like sci-fi to me. Especially that pesky step 1.
PM_Me_The_Surprise t1_ixyijrp wrote
Reply to Chinese citizens in Shanghai facing down the police, calling for CCP to step down by I_am_hot_for_tofu
You can ask a leader of a soulless regime to "step down", but don't be surprised when he doesn't. There really is only one solution for their specific hellscape.
PM_Me_The_Surprise t1_ixyh6mo wrote
Blood Music
PM_Me_The_Surprise t1_ixzem2q wrote
Reply to comment by Gmn8piTmn in Space Elevators Are Less Sci-Fi Than You Think by Sorin61
I was thinking this was more to do with getting things to the ISS or other low orbit needs, but I get what you're saying. That's a long fucking cable.