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To: robertpaulsen; Physicist
At that altitude and speed, the object in orbit will remain over a single point on Earth forever.

Not true. See my post #247

257 posted on 06/26/2004 12:02:11 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: RadioAstronomer

I just noticed that even forces that locally cancel out can still have a drift that grows with the square root of the time. Lots of small impulses impart Brownian motion to things. What I was wondering about is how beanstalk handles drifts in the Earth's axis of rotation. The equator isn't exactly constant otherwise UT0 and UT1 would be the same. Perhaps these are small enough to be corrected by gyroscopes.

What about wind? Few places are really quiet. This would seem to be a problem for the root of the beanstalk.


260 posted on 06/26/2004 1:47:50 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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