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>>5008021
>attaching rod
You... you're joking. You can't really be ignorant enough to think that a space elevator is a rigid structure? Right?

>propulsion
The current designs usually envision either conductive strips carrying power to the electrical engines of the climber or beamed power. Usually both for the sake of redundancy.

>>3810502
Not that part. The part where he's all whiny about how he's so alone and how he can't find no one else like him. Then he goes and continues his piecemeal journey "because that's what I chose" when he could have spread through the stars and actively helped the endangered, besieged post-bios. It's like he's committing genocide out of laziness and emo yearning.

>>3810500
I might take you more seriously if you didn't talk like EVERY SINGLE DOOMSAYER EVER.
>Look at the signs, man! Look at the portents! The end is nigh! The righteous shall see the decadent west burn. BURN!!

I wouldn't just ignore you if you weren't so worthy of it.