>>>I think that I'll build a staircase to the moon. After all, why complicate an
>>>issue that is so straightforward?????
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>>You mean like this? :-)
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>This technology wouldn't work for the moon. It's not geo stationary; it would be ripped from its foundation.
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>< "I can't believe I actually posted a repsonse to this" he mubbles to himself. >

Larry,

There were several science fiction articles (Analog Magazine) about 20 years back that discussed this concept. Essentially you needed (as they surmised with some apparently good physics) to get the strands long enough to provide constant tension. The problem was the tensile strength of those strands. The articles typically tended to think in terms of diamond strands..

Interesting concept - one I think would never work but fun anyway...