I know this is an old thread but this made me join scienceforums as it is a really interesting concept that until now i thought i was the only person who had questioned it. The Nano carbon tube would probably need an ancor to attach the motor to, otherwise it would rotate the motor rather than the nano tube? Maybe the moon? Another interesting implication would be how it would affect time. The closer you get the the speed of light, the slower you travel through time. This would mean as the tip reached these massive speeds, it would start to become younger than the rest of the tube. Would this warp the tube into some kind of spiral? This effect of time slowing for objects that go faster has me questioning another thing. Is the Land mass at the equator of our planet younger than the land mass at the pole's as it is spinnig faster and therefore traveling throug time slower?
