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From: mikes@apple.UUCP (Mike Shannon)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Electromagnetic Launch
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 15:52:46 EST
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>as you leave the gun at high Mach numbers.  A last point I would like to 
>make is you do not have to limit yourself to mountains.  With modern
>structural materials one can build towers that literally extend out of
>the atmosphere.  As an example, T300/934 Graphite/Epoxy composite, which
>...
	This is GREAT!  Let's just build an elevator to outer space!  Just
climb in, punch the button for floor 39,254 , and jump off!  (We should note
that this was tried once before, in biblical times. :-)

	(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}