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What sort of material is the line made out of to resist those forces? Asking for a friend trying to build a space elevator.

Obligatory Ylvis www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUHg...

It's stuck. I stopped at n=20 to check my work and have lunch and the damn thing just won't budge, even if I put my weight into- BOoM 💥

xkcd has 2 modes: hashtag relatable or goofy, and *adjusts glasses* Peak.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=TUHg...

That title text on this one is a heck of a little rabbit hole

This did not make sense to me until I watched Ylvis’ song Trucker’s Hitch

Frictionless and unbreakable…

Have some very strong rope. Especially near the top.

The alt text for screen readers seems to miss the division symbols, so the "1/3" comes out as "13" for example.

The things you find when searching for "anvil cell fusion": arxiv.org/abs/2606.05333

Give me a pulley looped recursively enough, and I shall destroy the universe.

provided the rope is made from spherical cow hide

xkcd, the comic that makes you go “But… That wouldn’t… You can’t, because… um… Wait…”

I'm using it right now to test my space elevator cable!

Incredible two sentences. "His mother's property was cleaned up by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ten months later as a Superfund cleanup site. Hahn attained Eagle Scout rank shortly after his lab was dismantled."

Title text: "As if the americium smoke detector incident wasn't enough, now nuclear regulators have ANOTHER reason to worry about the Boy Scouts." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3276#Transcript