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Re:The Spaceline: a space elevator alternative achievable wi... by maxerickson on Friday September 06, 2019 @12:37PM (#20897144)
If you build the cable out of moon it would probably be a nice big cost savings.

Of course, it still probably isn't worth doing, there's not huge dollar reasons for people to be on the moon, mostly just fun science reasons.

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Re:The Spaceline: a space elevator alternative achievable wi... by pavel_lishin on Friday September 06, 2019 @12:46PM (#20897245)
But aren't there huge dollar reasons for wanting to get into orbit in general?
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Re:The Spaceline: a space elevator alternative achievable wi... by maxerickson on Friday September 06, 2019 @12:52PM (#20897304)
I guess not particularly if you are comparing them to the cost of the largest structure ever built.

And this thing doesn't even help with the orbit part, it helps with getting to a different part of the solar system once you get to orbit.

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Re:The Spaceline: a space elevator alternative achievable wi... by pavel_lishin on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:43PM (#20898520)
But it does! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20896811
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