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From: COMBS@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA (Dave Combs)
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Subject: Re: elevator ride
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 15:41:07 EST
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amdcad!amdahl!drivax!holloway@ucbvax.berkeley.edu  (Bruce Holloway)
  writes:
>>	(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.

OF COURSE I'd run up the fire stairs!  It would definitely get easier on the
way up (why go in a box when you can FLY up the shaft), the view from the top
would be tremendous, and think of the ride down the banister!  Where do I
sign up for the race?

Dave Combs (COMBS@SUMEX)
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