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Why would you build it down here? You go grab an asteroid, move it into far Earth orbit. Eat it to make your cable then get that runners down to earth while spo
by Shivetya 13y ago
Why would you build it down here? You go grab an asteroid, move it into far Earth orbit. Eat it to make your cable then get that runners down to earth while spooling one the opposite direction.
So yeah, once we can grab an asteroid or two, chop them up for materials, then I think we can have something like a space elevator. Heaven help us if it ever does break/fall (not snapping of the cable but destroying the anchor point)
- wsinks 13y agoHoly shit. Now there's an idea. Forward that one to Elon.
- ufmace 13y agoI'm not sure why this is catching downvotes; it's probably the most viable idea for how to go about actually manufacturing a space elevator and putting it in place. Granted, we would need to figure out how to manufacture that cable that's 100x stronger than anything we currently have in space instead of on Earth, but that's probably easier than figuring out how to get the entire manufactured cable from Earth's surface into orbit.