Can nanotubes be streached between the poles of earth and moon?

Imagine you stood on the north pole of the moon were there is no
atmosphere, and tied a small stone to a rope, by spinning around and
around you could in theory slowly throw the stone in to space..

If you extended the cable farther into space, would the increase in
tension allow for its rotation to slow down in tandem with the earth? I
don't know if this would be physically possible, or how much the
orbit of the moon causes its distance from earth to change. But as the
cable would only be four times the length of a space elevator maybe in
future this would be possible?

Hi ,
what do you mean by moon's north pole.. Your hypothesis is flawed
because if you extend something into space from the poles of the moon,
they would be pointing perpendicular to the planetary plane and hence
at 90 degrees from Earth . So i don't really understand what you are
trying to get across here..
gautham ram

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If you extended the cable farther into space, would the increase in
tension allow for its rotation to slow down in tandem with the earth?

The first complication in this idea is that the Earth rotates faster
than the moon orbits the Earth. The polar anchorages would be difficult
to engineer, as they'd have to rotate.

The second complication is that the tether is going to want to stretch
from the core of the moon to the core of the Earth, so taking the
tether "sideways" to the poles will involve a steep catenary (the curve
found in suspension bridge cables).

Note this diagram of a lunar elevator:
http://www.universetoday.com/am/uplo...vator-full.jpg

Tension wants to draw the elevator out straight from the moon's core;
the situation is even worse on Earth, where gravity is much higher and
the planet much bigger. You'd be adding high sideways loads on the
elevator.

Mike Miller

Two other complicating factors, the Moon's orbit is elliptical, and the moon
does not orbit on the equtorial plane of the earth, but is tilted.
aloha,
davon96720

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Hi ,
what do you mean by moon's north pole.. Your hypothesis is flawed
because if you extend something into space from the poles of the moon,
they would be pointing perpendicular to the planetary plane and hence
at 90 degrees from Earth . So i don't really understand what you are
trying to get across here..
gautham ram