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I just ordered 2x30m cheap Chinese paracord. What should I do with it?
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@mmn too bad 2x30m is not long enough for a space elevator
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@mcscx How far is it to ISS, about 400km? 400*10³/30 = 13333 pieces, at about 4 USD per piece it's just slightly more than 50k USD.
According to the specification 30m weighs 220g, so just about 3000kg. At a max pulling capacity of 250kg (~2500N) I think maybe it'd snap.
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@mmn ISS is afaik not geo-stationary, so probably not optimal to tie a rope to that.
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@mcscx Dang, that's about 100 times longer. But while we're at it, scaling our project up, if we get a rope that's just 1000 times longer than the ISS distance, we could tie it to the moon!
With a moon-connected rope we could just connect the earth-end of the rope to a stone or something and have it fly through the air here on Earth. And when the swing passes by your neighbourhood, just grab on to it and climb to the moon!
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@mmn nice idea.As a side effect with the moon being tied to your rope you can probably declare the whole moon your property. My rope,my moon
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@zep good question. A lot of things are easier on the moon, e. g. jumping.
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@zep how about applying for the #MarsOne mission? mars-one.com They say there will be internet on #mars,just with a little delay of 6-46min.
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@tuttle good question. ur1.ca/pfcrn says Mars will have a caching server. But for ping etc. we might need a new --extraterrestrial option
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@mcscx One problem with the idea about having that rope with a stone swinging around is that the moon's apo-/perigee differ about 50Mm, which is about 4x the diameter of the Earth. So we will have to tie down @moonman and gradually stabilise the orbit for our end to stay inside the atmosphere at all.
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@tuttle working link: http://qttr.at/1e8v "What will astronauts do on #Mars"
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@mmn good idea, that seems to solve that issue. Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.
MMN-o ✅⃠
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