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Anything But Metric

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Americans will use anything but metric

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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By the time you reached GEO, the horizontal velocity you started with on the ground would be enough to keep you "weightless".

That assumes that you're climbing something like a space elevator that rotates with the earth. If you built a machine that hypothetically lets you climb by pushing reaction mass down in inertial space (employing a stairmaster-style motion), then you won't get the centrifugal effect.

But then when you do reach the moon's orbit, it smashes into you at several kilometers per second.

If you do the space elevator, then you actually start down-climbing immediately above the GEO level. Because the centrifugal force is stronger than earth gravity, and it pulls you farther out.

A cable that linked the earth and the moon would have to not be attached to the earth's surface. Otherwise it would wind up around the earth as the earth's faster rotation drags the earth end of the cable around.

[–] figjam@midwest.social 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

what happens when you have to stop to poop?

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Maybe try a "low residue" diet for this adventure.