...a method to connect the Earth and the moon with a cable

Business Insider ^ | 17 Sept 2019 | Ruqayyah Moynihan

[DUMBGRUNT]

Scientists have proposed a method to connect the Earth and the moon with a cable that will allow us to travel between them, but the European Space Agency isn't convinced

Two astronomers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Columbia have proposed a plan for a kind of elevator between the moon and the Earth.

Have you ever thought about what it would be like if we could just hop in an elevator, press a button, and head up to the moon?

According to the scientists' calculations, it would be possible to construct such a structure using existing technologies. The concept is "eminently plausible and may have been overlooked as a major step in the development of our capacity as a species to move within our solar system," they said.

[lefty-lie-spy]

The moon is tidally Locke’s to the earth. That probably wouldn’t be necessary. If it were, that would be extremely stupid to consider attempting it.

[alexander_busek]

The cable (elevator) would have drag across the Earth surface. The static electricity discharge would extreme. The elevator might even glow due to electron discharge.

Sounds like a good source of cheap, renewable energy.

I suggest that you patent your idea!

Regards,

[wastedyears]

[Ezekiel]

“Apollo 50 Go”...

On Sept 19th the Washington Monument reopens with its new elevator system.

v. cable:
1.
contact or send a message to (someone) by cablegram.

cablegram i.e. telegraph message. It’s all in the timing.

... according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought! Num 23:23

[aquila48]

“The cable (elevator) would have drag across the Earth surface.”

Which would slow down the orbit of the moon causing it to eventually crash on the earth.

[Magnum44]

And there were space elevator believers here on FR back then. </eyes rolling>

[hoagy62]

Sometimes, you just have to wonder if some people have a working brain.

(The answer to that, BTW, is “no”)

[Trumpnado2016]

First, I think the cable would snap under it’s own weight. If you could somehow stretch a cable into space you may have just invented the worlds biggest lightning rod.

[SecondAmendment]

[OrioleFan]

Sounds like something those progressive political science grads can wrap their “consensus” around. /sarc

[Political Junkie Too]

The part of the cable that's above the atmosphere would be exposed to space temperatures, right?

Wouldn't that steel cable become a long radiator of deep space cold back down to the Earth and begin to super-cool the air and ground around it?

-PJ

[PLMerite]

"Which would slow down the orbit of the moon causing it to eventually crash on the earth."

[pigsmith]

You just need a track that goes completely around the world, letting the cable move as the world moves, but still affixed to the ground.

Kinda like a giant yo-yo...?

[pigsmith]

Oh, how I love stupid ideas like this, because it brings out all the best FReeper comments!

[minnesota_bound]

Use gravity instead.

[Getready]

I hate cable tv....why would i want a cable to the moon? Dont think cable would survive the jet stream...better idea.

..HUMONGOUS solar powered em rail in geosynchronus orbit...get ship to it...engage...and be accelerated to very high velocites and aimed to target area in space.your ship has onboard ion engines for speed and direction adjustment...

[Jeff Chandler]

Why not use wifi?

[cephalopod]

A similar idea, but using a pole to slide on, is discussed here. https://what-if.xkcd.com/ . Many of the same problems would be present.

[Getready]

Hmmm...”pole dancers to the moon”....now on netflix...

[griffin]

So, what happens if you forget to pay your cable bill? Do they cut you off?