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From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Electromagnetic Launch
Message-ID: <271@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 19:06:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 19:06:53 1986
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Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
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>	(I wonder how many stories tall you'd have to go to get to geostationary
>orbit? That would be some elevator panel! :=)
>-- 
>			Michael Shannon {apple!mikes}

You'd want to get off somewhere near floor 7,744,000. Build this elevator,
and five'll get you ten that some nut will run a marathon up the fire stairs.