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I believe A taper ratio of 10 means a 5cm rope at the bottom would be 50cm at the top. A steel cable would be 1mm thick at the bottom and several light years*
by midasuni 4y ago
I believe A taper ratio of 10 means a 5cm rope at the bottom would be 50cm at the top.
A steel cable would be 1mm thick at the bottom and several light years* thick at the top.
*hyperbole. Maybe.
- Sharlin 4y agoIt’s a function of area so if we scale equally in both dimensions, a taper ratio of 10 means a thickness ratio of ~3.2. But yeah, that doesn’t exactly buy us much.
- marcosdumay 4y ago> *hyperbole. Maybe. A lightyear is around 10^19mm. Given that it's by area, a square lightyear is ~10^38mm^2. The cable is about 100 times thinner than it.