The orbital path would swing the tower in a figure eight pattern between the northern and southern hemispheres each day, taking residents on a tour through different parts of the work, including New York City (pictured) - all in just a 24 hour orbital cycle.
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To: Red Badger
Hi.
Wouldn’t the orbit of the asteroid decay with the additional mass attached?
5.56mm
41 posted on
03/28/2017 8:52:17 AM PDT by
M Kehoe
To: Red Badger
Read “Seveneves”. Great read.
43 posted on
03/28/2017 9:18:59 AM PDT by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: Red Badger
The same type of people who believe in these make believe projects reject a border wall as too difficult to build.
45 posted on
03/28/2017 9:32:49 AM PDT by
lacrew
To: Red Badger
Put an asteroid in orbit about the earth and it becomes a moon. It's no longer an asteroid.
The geostationary altitude is 36,000 km above the earth. That means an orbital period of 24 hours. If you go to 50,000 km above the earth the orbital period for a circular orbit is about 36 1/2 hours.
If I were a satellite owner I'd be concerned about this cable constantly slicing through the geostationary belt.
48 posted on
03/28/2017 10:16:25 AM PDT by
Purdue77
(I can't afford a tag line.)
To: Red Badger
the cost will far outweigh any benefits. like the fools who believe a dyson sphere will be feasable.
52 posted on
03/28/2017 10:34:35 AM PDT by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Red Badger
Knock yourself out
60 posted on
03/28/2017 11:34:08 AM PDT by
Daffynition
("The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
To: Red Badger
—Technically doable, in a few dozen years.
—It would be a prime target for terrorists.
—Most of the time it would be over Siberia, the Pacific Ocean, Downtown Detroit, etc.
—There will never be a market willing to pay for this.
To: Red Badger
Will my neighbors be 'The Jetsons'? 😀
69 posted on
03/28/2017 3:58:35 PM PDT by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
To: Red Badger
Of course, the FAA and he world's airlines wouldn't be at all concerned about a massive cable slashing thorough the sky at 1000 mph or so, either...
There is genius -- and then there's something we Texans call, "being plumb eat up with the dumb@$$"...
70 posted on
03/28/2017 4:32:05 PM PDT by
TXnMA
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
To: Red Badger
That there asteroid thingy may work mathematically at first glance.
However, hanging from it an appendage in the atmosphere (that lovely figure-8 pattern) will sap the asteroid's energy, leading, sooner or later, to asteroid orbital decay and reverse high-rise disaster.
Of course, this might be fixed by boosting the asteroid, but that's another calculation (or did I miss it from the link?).
Oh, and assuming the energy and physics can be made to work, it should be interesting to have one's office whisked about in that analemma at airliner speeds.
72 posted on
03/29/2017 12:42:17 AM PDT by
cynwoody
To: Red Badger
It’s 31,000 miles from earth, I doubt it would look
like the illustration...
76 posted on
07/05/2018 9:34:19 AM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Fred Nerks
Pie In the sky PING.( sewage in orbit?)
79 posted on
07/06/2018 5:48:50 AM PDT by
Candor7
((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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