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To: Telepathic Intruder

The moon isn’t attached to anything, so there’s no drag. The asteroid would have millions of tons of drag, as well as thousand of miles of ribbon creating air resistence.


32 posted on 03/29/2017 6:27:31 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jonty30

Yes I was considering the air resistance from the atmospheric part of the cable constantly moving from northern to southern hemispheres. A stationary space tether over the equator would have very little of that, however.


35 posted on 03/29/2017 6:41:16 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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