I’m just worried that the cable would get caught and the spin of the earth would draw the moon into contact.
These are not the scientists you are looking for...
Is it already April 1st again?
Wouldn’t the moon have to be in geosynchronous orbit?
Only ride the moon gondola if it takes you to the best skiing.
Wouldn’t “some people” fly an airliner into the cable?
Snort....wow this seems like a really stupid idea.
Nah they would put travelers to sleep so if something went wrong you would know it.
Where is Roebling?
Hey, I heard my local Kroger piping in Guns N’ Roses through the store speakers last week, so it might not be that bad of a wait.
Islam forbids.
Send all the lib/RAT communists up there on vacation and then cut the cable....permanently.
This whole space elevator thing is the turd that wouldn’t flush. First off, to install the cable, how to you feed out cable fast enough when you’re going 25,000 MPH toward/away from the moon? Another complication is that the earth is not rotating so that the same location is always facing the moon.
Go back to your business article, BI, because your aerospace knowledge is not impressive.
“Space Tethers” have been a concept since 1895.
Okay, I cheated and checked Wiki.
Time WaRNER Cable? Psssst- Time warner- there’s noone up there to get your channels- not a sound business idea
ohhhhhh- an actual cable you say? I see- heck yeah- let’s do it- it’ll be like the ball and chain of marriage- Gee- won’t the old man on the moon be pissed after being a happy bachelor for all these many years
bet this is a SF idea- they wanna give their homeless free trips to the moon everytime they gotta do a doody
I like,
“The Girl from Ipanema.”
That's a bit of an exaggeration. Current materials available will not do - steel, for example, would snap long before it reached the requisite length. This proposal only gets the rider from the moon to a geostationary orbit:
...instead of building the elevator from the Earth’s surface (which is impossible with today’s technology), it would be anchored on the moon and stretch some 200,000 miles toward Earth until hitting the geostationary orbit height (about 22,236 miles above sea level), at which objects move around Earth in lockstep with the planet’s own rotation.
So you still have a 22,000 mile drop to manage, or a 22,000 mile climb if you start at the Earth's surface. I'm thinking big-ass escalator myself. And then you're trapped in an elevator with a dude who had burritos and cheap beer for lunch, listening to Mantovani's version of Stairway To Heaven over and over and over and over...