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In reality, I believe that any space elevator would be nearly perfectly balanced, to the point that it would not even need to necessarily be connected to the ground. That is of course why a space elevator in and of itself is possible and why a material with great tensile strength is needed, as it would be perfectly balanced. {{unsigned ip|108.162.245.170}}
 
In reality, I believe that any space elevator would be nearly perfectly balanced, to the point that it would not even need to necessarily be connected to the ground. That is of course why a space elevator in and of itself is possible and why a material with great tensile strength is needed, as it would be perfectly balanced. {{unsigned ip|108.162.245.170}}
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: Attaching to the ground provides stability to some designs. It does not need to be perfectly balanced as the moving cargo will be changing the center of mass anyway. [[User:SDSpivey|SDSpivey]] ([[User talk:SDSpivey|talk]]) 00:21, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
  
  
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I find it cool there is a melody "Cerebral Plumbing" by Rom di Prisco, which fits the pattern of the poem. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.201|141.101.104.201]] 07:21, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
 
I find it cool there is a melody "Cerebral Plumbing" by Rom di Prisco, which fits the pattern of the poem. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.201|141.101.104.201]] 07:21, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
  
It’s written in Common Meter (mostly) which means that it fits to quite a number of tunes (especially if one is prepared to force the syllabus a bit). The second line is the main one to break a little from this but with a bit of effort it can be sang to O Little Town or Bethlehem or even the Original Pokemon Theme.
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It’s written in Common Meter (mostly) which means that it fits to quite a number of tunes (especially if one is prepared to force the syllables a bit). The second line is the main one to break a little from this but with a bit of effort it can be sang to O Little Town or Bethlehem or even the Original Pokemon Theme.

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Does anyone know the tensile vs. shear strength of nanotubes? Djbrasier ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 20:33, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

"but it can be cut with a simple pair of pruning shears (also a pun on shear strength)" - I don't know the precise etymology of the word shears, but I would assume they are called such precisely because they operate on a shearing principle. While it is fair to assume that the use of the words 'pruning shears' is intentional (rather than 'scissors' or similar) , I wouldn't call it a pun (exploiting multiple meanings of words). --Pudder (talk) 16:07, 11 September 2014 (UTC) (Retroactively signed)

I agree, it's not a pun. I'm going to change that. Spiral phi (talk) 19:32, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

I can't immediately think of any other rhyming comics. Are there any others? --Pudder (talk) 16:07, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

At least 206: Reno Rhymes, 491: Twitter and 805: Paradise City, and probably others. Pelosujamo (talk) 17:32, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Though the thing would have buckled before all this could even have a chance to happen 108.162.254.71 16:22, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Buckling is specifically a failure under compressive load. I'm assuming we are looking at a cable under tensile load caused by centrifugal force. (The old swinging a bucket on a rope trick). Wikipedia has an interesting Space Elevator article. --Pudder (talk) 12:23, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Aargh! The first line lacks a syllable... E.g. THEN after countless engineers...Mumiemonstret (talk) 10:31, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure the 3rd line's been changed; when I first read it, it ended with either "turns to tears" or "ends in tears". Can anyone confirm? Promethean (talk) 19:03, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

More accurate to refer to punched holes in terms of being stress concentrators than in terms of cross-section reduction. Sharp corners can reduce stress to failure massively while only marginally reducing cross-sectional area 108.162.216.18 16:09, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

In reality, I believe that any space elevator would be nearly perfectly balanced, to the point that it would not even need to necessarily be connected to the ground. That is of course why a space elevator in and of itself is possible and why a material with great tensile strength is needed, as it would be perfectly balanced. 108.162.245.170 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Attaching to the ground provides stability to some designs. It does not need to be perfectly balanced as the moving cargo will be changing the center of mass anyway. SDSpivey (talk) 00:21, 29 October 2021 (UTC)


I'm pretty sure you guys missed the reference to Burma Shave. The setup of the text is identical to the "burma shave" campaign (4 rhyming lines + "Burma Shave"). In this case Pruning Shears is used instead of Burma Shave which sounds quite similar (this is why he choose that over "scissors" or similar). See comic 491 for another reference. 188.114.102.169 15:11, 24 August 2016 (UTC) msx80

The Burma Shave connection is weak. The signs used only three or four syllables per line and just one rhyme (e.g., "Ben met Anna / Made a hit / Neglected beard / Ben Anna split"), and the "Burma Shave" was on a fifth, separate sign, not part of the rhyme. Gmcgath (talk) 20:23, 25 October 2016 (UTC)


I find it cool there is a melody "Cerebral Plumbing" by Rom di Prisco, which fits the pattern of the poem. 141.101.104.201 07:21, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

It’s written in Common Meter (mostly) which means that it fits to quite a number of tunes (especially if one is prepared to force the syllables a bit). The second line is the main one to break a little from this but with a bit of effort it can be sang to O Little Town or Bethlehem or even the Original Pokemon Theme.