October 9th, 2002, 06:37 PM
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Re: OT: About Space Elevators
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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.)
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You could also send packages from Tokyo at 8:00am, and they would arrive at the pacific coast of america by 5:00pm the previous day!
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