[extropy-chat] Re: Space Elevators

[Bret Kulakovich]

uhm, After a while, you are going away from the Earth at a comperable  
speed to the mass you are repelling away from you?

Something doesn't click here... Without station keeping thrust, your  
mass changes and you are going to gain/lose altitude as you spool out  
the cable. And as it gets closer to the Earth (inserting previous  
gripe:) it starts to build an electrical differential with you on orbit?


Just thinking out loud.


]3


On Aug 3, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:

>  Mysteriously, it's going straight away from me toward the surface.  
> After a while, the far end is hovering one inch above the ground.

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