The cable is 62,000 miles long. The atmosphere goes up maybe 100 miles (0.16%) of it, and meaningful wind only goes up about ten miles (0.016%). The pressure doesn't even register.
That said, I've got to imagine that bottom .1% of the cable will be made differently to counteract all the water and oxygen around it.
I wonder about the rotational speed changes of the payload mass more than the wind. The counterweight will tend to speed up and slow down as the mass of the payload is accelerated and decelerated (during climbs and descents respectively), but I keep hearing that the counterweight is just a mass.
If you think the counterweight will move down when you thrust a mass up, you have a misconception. The tether will be consistently under tension, so unless the acceleration mA is sufficient to surpass MV^2/R, that won't happen.
These are all great questions but why do we have to imagine the answers, can we just simulate the damn thing and settle if it would work or not? It seems almost all parameters are known for such simulation except the material used for cable is not invented yet.
I don't know; I'd be wary of working with any architect who handed me a list of test cases as a specification. What if he/she left out important edge cases, which I extrapolate incorrectly? How am I to infer that the absence of a test case means "not specified" vs. "specified to be the extrapolation of other test cases"?
That's kind of like saying that a coder who can only write pseudocode can code a system, but not to the extent that I personally want him/her to.
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He starts with an anecdote about cheating and then lays out HFT an implies it is cheating without saying how. If he had to defend his assertion that it is cheating he wouldn't have an article.
I'd prefer to live in a society where things like this were a matter of research rather than pronouncements by bureaucrats:
> "The distraction of the giant screen in the Tesla is not tolerable. I am convinced that the deflection is so great by the picture and sound while driving that accidents were due to the increase markedly. "
> to turn on the fog lights, the driver must tap through several levels
I'm sorry but that alone requires no further research, basic machinery operation should never have to go through a sight-requiring touchscreen, let alone multiple levels of touchscreen menu.
That's the head of public relations for the Zurich police talking, on a ride-along with a journalist. It's not exactly a pronouncement from above carved into a stone tablet.
