• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    Pluto and Charon are mutually tidally locked, so they don’t rotate in relation to each other.

    Plus, in smaller bodies you don’t need impossibly strong materials to make a space elevator like you’d need for Earth. Hell, Kevlar fiber is strong enough to make a space elevator from the Moon to one of the Lunar Lagrange points due to the reduced gravity