Negligible

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negligible

Title text: Anyone know if we can produce infinite energy by just ignoring rope tension?

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Transcript

[Autogenerated transcript]

Wait... wait.

You just assumed

The cable mass was negligible?

It's a tradition.

Run!Run!

Caption: It was a mistake to let physicists engineer the space elevator.

Votey Transcript

[Autogenerated transcript]

I have just enough time to draw a free body diagram before we perish!

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