Give me one (1) reason why this couldn't work. Protip: you can't (have sex)

Its floating in space and being pulled by the moon. Its portion in the earth is still very heavy, but it'd be an impossibly long rope anyways, that's irrelevant. Whats important is that, if this machine was built and it worked as intended, would it allow faster than light communication? If it did, it'd be a revolutionary invention, so intuition heavily implies that it's not viable, but why.

At least some of the rope would be on a planet where either end of the communication is taking place. That means gravity is involved at least there. Plus a rope that size would have its own pull.

Make it a thin rope, dumbass

Because it's not my dick blowing my load into your mother, that's why.

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You might trip over the rope

If the planet on the other side is similar to Earth's mass, then they'll pull each other apart at the same rate, canceling it out

doesn't matter how thin. It's still fucking long. The total mass would be an integral involving the cross sectional area from on one end of the rope to the other.

You'd have to move the Earth plus the mass of the rope to send one click at least

This is kinda trippy. An object long enough to connect two planets of equal weight would be absolutely light. Even if it has a huge mass, it's weight is null. Hell if the other planet was just heavier and the pole just shorter, you'd have a gigantic iron rod that you can pull towards the ground with little force but still floats away, like a baloon.

>if it worked as intended
That's the thing. It wouldn't work for practical reasons which goes into the logistics of faster than light travel

they cease to be two planets, or objects at least if they're truly connected. they become one.

What if it's one atom thick? It would be the same mass as a ball of yarn

show me your calculations

So you're saying that if your mom uses a double ended dildo with you, you're no longer two separate people?

any impulse moves as fast as the speed of sounds in that object. I don't know what it is for an interstellar rope but I guarantee it is less than the speed of light.

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They're classified, sorry

Wrong. Think of it like how when you're in water then sound travel's faster (and more louder)

>moving the goal post this fucking hard
Holy shit, you get the idea,pushing an astronomically large object would allow a person on the other side to receive information faster than light would travel from point a to point b
Yay or fucking nay?

if the dildo were fused to our assholes, maybe? kinda like conjoined twins? they're one pair of twins, yet two? They have one center of gravity and moment of inertia.

I'm too busy talking about dildo infused assholes, sorry

Nay. The push/pull would have to be faster than light no mater how big the object or small.

Why do you think a tight rope has the exact same properties as a light? And why do you think it travels in waves,?

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Yes, because the speed of sound is proportional to the density of its medium. Air is not so dense, so the speed of sound is not so fast. Water is iirc 1000x more dense so the speed of sound is much faster in water.

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also, mass resists motion. for faster than light, you'd have to communicate with means not utilizing mass.

>he doesn't understand how a vacuum works
Holy moly

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The speed of light is actual different depending on the medium as well. It moves slower through glass than air. When people speak of speed of light as a maximum, that's in a vacuum.

No, but you're mom does. Like a circus seal.

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How does a vacuum come in play? The information travels as an impulse in the rope analogous to sound.

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>4 lightyears of rope
>finally a decent reason to tell the whole world to KYS

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You would just pull the planets closer together, messing up their orbits and leading to them becoming inhabitable.

That would imply the rope has infinite tension, which is physically impossible

>not understanding the medium is the rope and not the vacuum of space

This thread is not for brainlets, sorry

My understanding is that this is already basically how electrical transmission works. There's no reason it would work better than a long wire.

you are retarded that is not how longitudinal waves work

It wouldn't work due to the requirement for an unbreakable material and the limits of 3d space. However if you create a 1 dimensional object, it could work.

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Imagine an unbreakable fidget spinner that we rotate just below the speed of light
the tips of the fidget spinner would go faster than light since they're further out
checkmate, atheists

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Get a load of this fag, thinking that a non-rigid supercompact neutron chain would be able to move faster than light speed.

The mass would have to be infinitely rigid and the particles would have to have zero space between them.
Congratulations on your black hole user.

The reason why this doesnt work is because the force of push/pull is not instantaneous. From our perception in our daily lives it is instantaneous because all the objects are small enough for things to be impossible to see the delay. But something that long would actually show it's delay, and surprise surprise it is slower than light.

Everything has weight everywhere, gravity exists everywhere

Force doesn't propogate faster than light.

For the iron it's just speed of sound through iron.
(...and if you can use a hypothetical absolutely rigid object why not use a hypothetical radio that sends messages instantly?)

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what about the fact that both the planets spin around their own axis so the rope would just wrap around the planet/get cut
plus other anons im sure said this but:
1.how would you even get that much material
2.how would you get the rope across
3.the rope would need to be inextensible if you wanted a tug to register at the opposite end, if not, the force of any tug would be negligible and just go to extending the rope a couple millimeters
4.how do you even make sure the aliens understand morse code, and the information we are trying to relay to them?

what if the "rope" was made of diamond?

where the fuck are you going to get a piece of diamond that is 3.784e+13 long?
you can't weld diamonds or attach them to eachother reliably

just hypothetically

diamond is the hardest metal known to man, so would not compress at the high speeds involved

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