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I love the prospect :D If cable holds you have gravity, if it fails you risk being slingshot into deep space

• ben_w 2y ago
  The usual design for these things have very low surface speeds, so you're not likely to go off into the deep even if it fails, as you're going to be pretty close to your prior combined orbit even without thrust, and the Δv needed to get back will be tiny. But also, the forces are never more than the apparent gravity times the mass, so when someone does finally end up experiencing this, it will be part of a larger pattern of bad maintenance and/or engineering that likely has other things going wrong at the same time.
  • me_me_me 2y ago
    I was only joking, there is no way this would be singular cable without a fallback safety.