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Space Elevator

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1773 points kaonwarb | 1 comments | 20 Oct 25 04:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.39s | source
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GMoromisato ◴[20 Oct 25 16:09 UTC] No.45645531[source]▶
I love this page and I donated, but I was (naively) expecting it to get to geosynchronous altitude, which is the actual top of a space elevator.

Of course, that would require a page 420 times longer, and I don't know if a browser would even support it.

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1. kmacdough ◴[20 Oct 25 17:30 UTC] No.45646616[source]▶
I mean the idea isn't actually real or practical. It's a thought experiment that makes for some fun calculus. No one's actually going to try and build one.