What is keeping us from anchoring a cable to Earth’s surface and tethering a platform in space?
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Most of these answers here appear to be right on track. In theory, we need to turn toward spiders’ webs. And, scientists ARE working on it. It won’t be long.
Meaning, a spider’s web, upscaled for human capabilities in flight, could stop a Mach 3 jet… better than any technology we currently possess.
In the end, you’re going to read a lot about “carbon nanofibers.”
Tethering an orbital platform to the Earth has been an hypothetical for nearly a century. They call them ‘elevators.’ but for all intents, it’s a way for a line to be attached to an object in orbit.
Sounds simple enough, but in practice, not easy at all…
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