What is keeping us from anchoring a cable to Earth’s surface and tethering a platform in space?

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What is keeping us from anchoring a cable to Earth’s surface and tethering a platform in space?

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Try to imagine what would happen if something went horribly wrong and a 40k kilometer long cable broke loose and started falling to Earth, which is 40k kilometers in circumference and constantly spinning.

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