Re: [twuug] OT: NASA space program

[Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:12:29PM -0500, John Whitten wrote:
> On Monday 03 February 2003 07:57 pm, Ethan O'Toole spewed into the ether:
> > > Not necessarily true.  A 1-inch steel cable can support huge amounts of
> > > weight, and carbon fiber made with buckytubes is supposed to be hundreds
> 
> > I still say put a resturant at the top of one.
> >
> > Not quite the Resturant at the end of the Universe but...
> 
> 
> Yeah, but then you'ld be at the end of your rope...

Speaking of that, someone said in a discussion about this last year that
India will beat us with the elevator, because of all these centuries of
practice with that magic rope trick... :)


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