Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!clyde!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan From: mcewan@uiucdcs.UUCP (mcewan ) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Elevators - (nf) Message-ID: <3122@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Oct-83 22:30:15 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.3122 Posted: Wed Oct 5 22:30:15 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Oct-83 16:52:33 EDT Lines: 15 #R:pur-phy:-102900:uiucdcs:12700039:000:347 uiucdcs!mcewan Oct 5 15:20:00 1983 /***** uiucdcs:net.space / pur-phy!piner / 2:03 pm Sep 28, 1983 */ There is a practical problem with elevators too. If your elevator moves at 100 miles per hour. It will take 10 days to reach orbit. Rich Piner Purdue Physics Dept. /* ---------- */ You could say the same thing about the shuttle! Scott McEwan uiucdcs!mcewan