RE: Re: [OT] Beanstalk anyone?

Brian K Bell wrote:

>No, you are correct. And this is necessary to maintain tention on the
>beanstalk. If you put the end mass at the orbital velocity point, you
will
>pull the whole thing down every time you send up a mass (as you pull it

>into
>a slightly lower, unstable, orbit). Therefore the angular force of the
>endmass has to be greater than the pull of gravity on the end mass, the
>beanstalk, and any payload (including transport) that you send up the 
>stalk.
>Or at least that is how I understand it.

That's how it struck me as well.

3B^2

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