Submitted by Sorin61 t3_z5v1h4 in technology
Gmn8piTmn t1_ixzh2dx wrote
Reply to comment by PM_Me_The_Surprise in Space Elevators Are Less Sci-Fi Than You Think by Sorin61
It is but you can’t anchor one end of the cable at 250 miles because it will have to be moving compared to the ground at 28.000km/h (17.000+ mph) which means that you’d have a cable whipping around the earth at that speed. I mean the destruction would be monumental haha.
What you do is you anchor the cable at a geosynchronous orbit so it will be still compared to the earths surface at 35.000km away.
That’s a damn long cable lol.
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