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cybrbeast · 6 months ago

Interesting concept. Must look strange to see the such a thing rotating. I wonder what amplitude the rotation will need to have and how much extra strain it puts on the cable.
Brett_Bellmore · 6 months ago

Keith Henson's proposal is to use a loop, but to cope with the need for a tapered cable by using pulleys to multiply the number of strands towards the middle. The cable would periodically pass through an inspection station, where it could be swapped out, or re-coated with a film to deal with the effects of atomic oxygen.