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Space Elevator

(neal.fun)
1773 points kaonwarb | 2 comments | 20 Oct 25 04:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.477s | source
1. kinduff ◴[20 Oct 25 06:01 UTC] No.45640489[source]▶
I always enjoy Neal's pages. I found planes at high altitude very interesting, didn't know we could fly that high!
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2. lproven ◴[20 Oct 25 13:16 UTC] No.45643551[source]▶
To quote Toy Story:

"That's not flying, that's just... falling with style!"

Accelerate upwards fast enough, you can so to speak fall upwards for a short while before you fall back down again...