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1. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Jul-2016 17:11:11 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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   I just ordered 2x30m cheap Chinese paracord. What should I do with it?
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jul-2016 06:29:28 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • mcscx
     @mcscx How far is it to ISS, about 400km? 400*10³/30 = 13333 pieces, at about 4 USD per piece it's just slightly more than 50k USD.
     
     According to the specification 30m weighs 220g, so just about 3000kg. At a max pulling capacity of 250kg (~2500N) I think maybe it'd snap.
     
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   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jul-2016 17:44:31 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • mcscx
     @mcscx Dang, that's about 100 times longer. But while we're at it, scaling our project up, if we get a rope that's just 1000 times longer than the ISS distance, we could tie it to the moon! With a moon-connected rope we could just connect the earth-end of the rope to a stone or something and have it fly through the air here on Earth. And when the swing passes by your n…
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Friday, 08-Jul-2016 04:53:19 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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     @mcscx One problem with the idea about having that rope with a stone swinging around is that the moon's apo-/perigee differ about 50Mm, which is about 4x the diameter of the Earth. So we will have to tie down @moonman and gradually stabilise the orbit for our end to stay inside the atmosphere at all.