What would happen if one end of a rope was attached to the moon

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>>8617322
OP here. EFG would follow the earths rotation and stay above the same patch of land right? Like if a helicopter pilot lifted straight up and without trying to go anywhere.

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>>8617325
As opposed to having the earth move under his feet.

>>8617325
No, the Moon goes around the Earth 28 times slower than the Earth spins on its axis, and the rope is attached to that.

Might depend on your latitude what may happen

Rope breaks. You fall one meter.

>>8617322
The rope would collapse under its own weight.

>>8617336
>>8617340

Boring. What if the rope had enough strength not to collapse under its own weight?

Considering that the man is being pulled with all of earth gravity, then the moon would also eventually be pulled down to earth.

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>>8617346
In that case I hope you have been practicing your ocarina skills

>>8617346
It's center of mass is significantly higher than that of geostationary orbit (GEO is ~35k km, CoM of rope is half way to the Moon at ~192k km) so it would move slower than the surface (higher orbits are slower).

And that's ignoring the fact that its attached to the Moon as well.

>>8617327

My money is on this one. If a rope had that much tensile strength and weight, then I think it might stay in place.

In that case, it probably would look like it is zooming through the sky at about 1180 kilometers/hr.

>>8617322
You'd go flying off to the west at a horrible speed.