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anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Yeah that’s kinda what I was envisioning, maybe half the tether zingin off into space when the other half fell into the pacific or desert, but even half is gonna be like 20,000km I guess.

Also wasn’t there a scenario like this in one of the Mars Trilogy books?

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