[dogscoff]

around the earth and cable cars running between all points like subways in a large city today.

So I could buy myself a £50 ticket and scoot up a cable off the coast of Australia at 9am. Then I could zing around the Earth on a super-fast space cable car and scoot back down another cable in the North Sea in time for lunch the same day. (except that it would be midnight... yeesh, jet lag would be horrendous.)

Then I could spend 19 hours and £200 trying to get from one end of Britain to the other by train...