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Giant Space Bola is much more attractive. It is a 10000 km string with capsules at both ends. It rotates in sync with earth so that the speed at meeting point i
by timonoko 1y ago
Giant Space Bola is much more attractive. It is a 10000 km string with capsules at both ends. It rotates in sync with earth so that the speed at meeting point is the same. You just hop in and end up in space without much effort. Because it is freely floating you can move it around to avoid meteor impacts and other such shit.
- 243423443 1y agoDid you read Seveneves by Neal Stephenson? In the second part of the book, they use this and related technologies.
- arethuza 1y agoI think those technologies are mentioned throughout the book - just at a much larger scale in the second part.
- daeken 1y agoBolos are used for spin gravity in the first part, but that's very different from the rotovators used in the second part. Both in concept and design. The key point with the rotovator is that the tip is moving at ~0m/s relative to the body it's orbiting when it's at its nadir, allowing you to just hop/grab on.