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could the earth and moon be connected with rope?

Nothingman54Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
edited September 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
do you think the earth and the moon could be connected with rope? i think it could if you had enough slack to make up for the moon moving closer and further from earth and the earth spinning. it could not be normal rope.
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  • WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
    Nothingman54 wrote:
    do you think the earth and the moon could be connected with rope? i think it could if you had enough slack to make up for the moon moving closer and further from earth and the earth spinning. it could not be normal rope.

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  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    also the moon is continually moving away from the earth by 1 1/2 inch per year so you'd have to keep letting the rope out!
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  • HorosHoros Posts: 4,518
    Well I believe the same side of the moon is facing us. Assuming that's right attaching the rope to the moon would not present many problems. Attaching it to the Earth would be much more difficult. I'm not sure of the Moon's path of rotation around the Earth but I believe it has a wide range of variance. Therefore attaching the rope to the Earth would prove to be improbable. Perhaps a rope attached near the magnetic north pole, provided with the required slack, could in fact be attached to a large enough pivot to allow for the variances in the Moon's orbit.
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  • ajedigeckoajedigecko \m/deplorable af \m/ Posts: 2,430
    shit..........what would the diameter be?
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  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,160
    I just hope that a NASA engineer doesn't haphazardly stand with one foot inside the spool of rope when the rocket takes off or they are in for one hell of a ride.
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    I'm thinking some 40 pound test fishing line might do the trick.
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  • JordyWordyJordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    ive got some auld rope out the back, we should pool our ropes together and test this bad boy out

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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    This thread is nothing but old rope.
  • WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
    Very important: This is not to scale!

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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    couple months back i read an article about the japanese creating an elevator to the moon......google it. i bet its there.
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    restlesssoul wrote:
    couple months back i read an article about the japanese creating an elevator to the moon......google it. i bet its there.
    yah i was just gonna mention this... must be possible... wonder how long the moon elevator trip would take... and how much it would cost... would definitely be a cool view

    i can think of no better way of spending the moon elevator budget right now
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  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    There is some talk that in the future, to make space visiting more accessible they will create somewhat of a satellite that will be just into space, and a type of tether will be attached, and then instead of flying machines needed, it'll just need a type of elevator to go up and down the tether. This may be similar to the moon one that was just mentioned.

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    sgossard3 wrote:
    restlesssoul wrote:
    couple months back i read an article about the japanese creating an elevator to the moon......google it. i bet its there.
    yah i was just gonna mention this... must be possible... wonder how long the moon elevator trip would take... and how much it would cost... would definitely be a cool view

    i can think of no better way of spending the moon elevator budget right now

    How exactly would that work? The earth and the moon are spinning in different directions. The "rope" would quickly start wrapping around one or the other, or both.
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  • Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    CJMST3K wrote:
    sgossard3 wrote:
    restlesssoul wrote:
    couple months back i read an article about the japanese creating an elevator to the moon......google it. i bet its there.
    yah i was just gonna mention this... must be possible... wonder how long the moon elevator trip would take... and how much it would cost... would definitely be a cool view

    i can think of no better way of spending the moon elevator budget right now

    How exactly would that work? The earth and the moon are spinning in different directions. The "rope" would quickly start wrapping around one or the other, or both.
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  • WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
    sgossard3 wrote:
    buzz. kill.

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  • Nothingman54Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    i think if you start from the mon znd wo your wzy to ezrth it could be done. nasa waste billions of dollars on space when we cant ever benefit from it so why not spend a few more billion and do it
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  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Nothingman54 wrote:
    i think if you start from the mon znd wo your wzy to ezrth it could be done. nasa waste billions of dollars on space when we cant ever benefit from it so why not spend a few more billion and do it
    Plenty to be learned from space. I don't think its a waste at all. Saying that is like saying, why the fuck did we invent boats.. maybe we should all just stay put, be content with what we know and not try to push our minds.. I for one want to know as much as I can about the universe that created me before I die.
  • springsteenfanspringsteenfan Posts: 383
    Nothingman54 wrote:
    do you think the earth and the moon could be connected with rope? i think it could if you had enough slack to make up for the moon moving closer and further from earth and the earth spinning. it could not be normal rope.

    my quote of all time on this board is "it could not be normal rope".I don't know why it makes me laugh so much, but it does!
  • Red_DotRed_Dot Posts: 1,454
    If you said the rope was too small to be revealed by even our most powerful telescope, then we would not be able to disprove you ;)
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  • WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
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  • springsteenfanspringsteenfan Posts: 383
    i'm drunk enough to believe that the earth and moon could be connected by a rope. Maybe even a normal rope.
  • WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    Wilds wrote:
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  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Just use stuff like the chain that the Romulan captain used to connect the red matter device to the planet in the latest Star Trek movie - that looked pretty strong.
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