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| A rotating space elevator? | |
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| The rotation makes the payload zoom up the cable without a motor, | |
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L. Golubović and S. Knudsen. “Classical and Statistical mechanics of celestial-scale spinning strings: Rotating space elevators.†Europhysics Letters, 86 (2009)
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