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The consequence of a cable between a craft in space and a planetary location being suddenly retracted was recently imagined in the first episode of the Apple TV+ series ''{{w|Foundation (TV series)|Foundation}}'', wherein a {{w|space elevator}} tether was severed. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huRmvG3zRpg It didn't end well for anyone other than the terrorists] who won the freedom of thousands of inhabited worlds which had formerly suffered under the jackbooted oppression of {{w|Trantor}}'s fascist galactic Empire regime.
 
The consequence of a cable between a craft in space and a planetary location being suddenly retracted was recently imagined in the first episode of the Apple TV+ series ''{{w|Foundation (TV series)|Foundation}}'', wherein a {{w|space elevator}} tether was severed. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huRmvG3zRpg It didn't end well for anyone other than the terrorists] who won the freedom of thousands of inhabited worlds which had formerly suffered under the jackbooted oppression of {{w|Trantor}}'s fascist galactic Empire regime.
  
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Another illustration in fiction of a severed space elevator is in Red Mars, part of the {{w|Mars Trilogy}} by Kim Stanley Robinson.
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Another illustration in fiction of a severed space elevator is in Red Mars, part of the {{w|Mars Trilogy|Mars Trilogy}} by Kim Stanley Robinson.
  
 
[[Black Hat]] severs a space elevator tether using a pair of scissors in an [[697:_Tensile_vs._Shear_Strength|earlier comic]].
 
[[Black Hat]] severs a space elevator tether using a pair of scissors in an [[697:_Tensile_vs._Shear_Strength|earlier comic]].

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