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Re:The Spaceline: a space elevator alternative achievable wi... by pavel_lishin on Friday September 06, 2019 @12:39PM (#20897169)
> they just hand wave that all failure will happen on the moon side and never affect earth... um okay? Because of testing?

They don't handwave it, they calculate it. It's significantly less handwavy than your back-of-napkin objections.

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Re:The Spaceline: a space elevator alternative achievable wi... by wbhart on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:27PM (#20900062)
Can you point to the specific section of the paper where this is calculated. I admittedly only skim read, but I did go through the whole thing, and I'm convinced I missed this kind of analysis somewhere.
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