you take a space station floating in geo synchronous orbit and you tie a string to it, you are sitting on earth and you slowly pull on the string, the force of you pulling will eventually pull the space station to were gravity has an effect and it will come down no matter how fricken big it is...just don't jerk the string, nice steady pull.
Will it work, what do you think?
2006-06-23 03:12:33 · 10 answers · asked by punchpringle 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Another string theory,
G – hmm,
why not then a G-string theory?
Curios question it is. Let us as assume that you will put a geosynchronous satellite at about 300km from the center of the Earth. Since it is a geosynchronous satellite it will stay with the same point on the Earth say over your house. The air resistance will be minimum as I‘ll assume that the planets atmosphere stays with the planet. Here are some numbers:
Earth rotates at Ve= 1,700 km/hour (diameter ~13,000 km)
Our geosynchronous satellite Vs= ~40,000 km/hour (at 300,000 km above center of the Earth)
This was just to show off, now let us do some serous computation.
And the weight of the string say at 1gm/meter will weigh …. will weigh about 126.87 kg by employing the inverse square law of gravity. (These were very tough computations).
That will apply a force of about 1,300 N on that satellite. Why apply a steady pull? The weight of the string will bring the satellite down.
The daunting question is how are we are going to attach one end of that string to the satellite in the first place and then getting the other end to your house ;)? Or perhaps…
Thanks for all the fish
2006-06-23 04:22:03 · answer #1 · answered by Edward 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To stay in orbit, a space station or satellite must be travelling at around 17,000 miles per hour. I don't know what kind of string would be able to sustain that speed through our atmosphere without burning up.
2006-06-23 10:24:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it will, since there is no gravity in space, problem is, once you get closer to the earth, it will be harder...
and I hope you have a string that is strong enough to withstand the heat and cold
2006-06-23 10:16:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it seems possible but you have to see the inpractcslity in these things , how long of a string are you talkin 10 or 20 miles that would be nearly impossible
2006-06-23 10:38:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well yes, this is possible, but I don't think it connects to the more widely accepted string theory.
And it would have to be quite a strong piece of twine
2006-06-23 10:16:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its false.
ur pull gives the space station to spirral up .
as its height reduces it will not be geosynchrnous.
2006-06-23 15:06:17 · answer #6 · answered by dhamas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there isn't any other force which keeps it rotatiin then it will crash to earth in a spiral manner.
2006-06-23 10:16:21 · answer #7 · answered by Wolverine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hooray for the scientific thinker.
2006-06-23 10:17:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If that string was made of something harder then diamond, harder then something thats harder then diamond
2006-06-23 10:17:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-06-23 10:34:46 · answer #10 · answered by super_sayijn02 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋