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Re:Confronting the Credibility Gap for Crewed Exploration of... by pilom on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @09:19AM (#13229242)
The biggest problem with a space elevator on Mars is that the orbit of one of its moons is closer than the minimum height of a space elevator to be stable. Eventually the elevator cable will get hit.
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Re:Confronting the Credibility Gap for Crewed Exploration of... by dTal on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @01:40PM (#13231496)
Hang the cable from the moon and let the end trail?
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