Quote from: HairyMaclairy on Today at 03:17:02 AM

Quote from: 600watt on March 04, 2021, 04:02:28 AM

Quote from: Richy_T on March 04, 2021, 03:48:57 AM

Quote from: 600watt on March 04, 2021, 03:24:35 AM

the circumference of earth is 24k miles. a space elevator woiuld need to be up probably 22k-26k miles. i guess it depends if this wrap would follow a circumference line or a smaller one. nice problem to think about. thx.

Before you noodle too hard, I very well may be misremembering. It's a fair distance anyway though.

i was serious. it could wrap around the earth several times as long as it does not wrap around "straight" at a "equatorial" line. in what fashion would it wrap around? can someone elaborate? would a cable attached to a spinning sphere always wrap around an "equatorial" line? or could it also use other latitudes?

edit: i think you thought i was being sarcastic with the "nice problem to think about.thx" but i wasn´t. sorry for not making that clearer.

The tether is really long. It could wrap anywhere.

Exactly it would be 1/10th the way to the moon...
As a reference the ISS space station is at 408km and geostat is at 35786km Tongue

So a space elevator is a big ass object...