From: Spike (spike66@comcast.net)
Date: Tue Sep 09 2003 - 21:00:20 MDT
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From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
On Behalf Of Damien Broderick
You don't have to *live* there, though, right? The beanstalk stretches
even further out than the distance from surface to GEO. But maybe it
would put too much tension on the string to have a big station on the
far end, say?
Damien Broderick
No, it wouldn't matter if there was a station hanging
somewhere on the far side of GEO or just a cable stretching
way out there for counterbalance. The maximum tension
in the cable is the same either way, and occurs right
at GEO. Damien I sent you a spreadsheet showing this
a couple years ago. If you want it, I can search around
in my files.
spike
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