Would it be possible to tightrope to the moon?

Question

Would it be possible to tightrope to the moon?
I know its about 250,000 miles or so but if you had a spacesuit on and you were pretty good at tightrope walking do you think it would be at all possible?

Answer 1

Yes, but not the way most would envision the feat.
Start by stringing a tight rope across the interior of a space ship. For lift off attach your self to the rope with carabiners. One you were out of the gravitational pull of the earth, start rope walking from one end to the other. As you approach the moon, re attach your self to the rope with your carabiners. Upon landing you would have been on the rope from the time you left earth until landing on the moon. Good enough for the Guinness Book of Records!

Answer 2

No. You could not attach the rope since the moon is revolving around the earth.

Interestingly though there are people working on a 'space elevator'. This would be attached to the earth at one and and teethered to an asteroid (or something else heavy) so as to put the center of mass of the structure in earth geosynchronous orbit (An orbit that rotates at the same speed as the earth - television satelites are often there so they stay over the same spot on the earth all the time).

Even with this space elevator though, you wouldn't be able to 'tightrope walk' because the direction is wrong, you would have to climb it - Would be cool though because as you go up your weight would decrease until weightless at geosynchronous.

Answer 3

not on a tightrope because from earth it would go up vertically and I've yet to meet a tight rope walker that can walk up a rope

having said that though if you had a very big set of steps or a rope ladder the you could climb up as long as you had a space suit and a packed lunch (it might take a while) it would be no harder than climbing a ladder

the only reason it cost so much to send the space shuttle up is because it doesn't having anything to push itself against once it leaves the ground so it has to fight gravity totally unaided which requires a lots of thrust, imagine the energy it takes to do the high jump compared to climbing a flight of stairs to same height

Answer 4

Unfortunately, no. The tightrope would get tangled round the Earth as it rotated.
If both the Earth and the Moon stopped moving, then I suppose it could be possible. It would take a very long time though!

Answer 5

no. The tightrope would get tangled round the Earth as it rotated.
But that would be one hell of a tightrope if you could

Answer 6

If you did 50 miles a day every day, which is about the max that a human can walk in a day, it would take you almost 14 years to make the trip. Odds are that you would run out of air and starve to death before that.

Answer 7

it incredibly is a potographic trick the moon would not seem that length on a digital camera. It does seem that length to the human eye while low down on the horizon yet once you notice a great moon growing to be and take a image of it the digital camera says the moon is small, showing it incredibly is an optical phantasm.

Answer 8

No, the moon does not stay an equal distance from Earth, so the rope would be slack or break ... Also, the solar winds would make it impossible to stay on the rope.

Answer 9

No cos the rope would txist round the earth and make it into two blobs like twisting a baloon in the middle and I dont think the tourist industry would like that. Do you?

Answer 10

No because the moon is constantly moving around the Earth, so you would only be able to anchor the rope on one end.