If so, then you are smarter than the knuckleheads at NASA, who resorted to huge inflatable air bag to land the Mars rovers safely.
Sorry. I didn't mean any disrespect. I just figured it might be one of those space elevator kind of problems e.g. "you could do X but you'd need a tensile strength...
Yeah, for sure... just wondering whether there are applications for the 'ring' itself, that don't involve 'fabric' per se, which presents a tear risk, as the video outlines.
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This is my first post and it's an 'ask someone with a lot more aerodynamics knowledge than me' kind of post, so forgive me if it needs to be posted elsewhere.
This has been bugging me for some time, explained as follows. I will use point form so that my assumptions / knowledge...
