kinther@lemmy.world to Space@lemmy.world · 8 months agoAn Engineer Says He’s Found a Way to Overcome Earth’s Gravitywww.popularmechanics.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down133
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minus-squareDkarma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months agoSo in theory if you built a vacuum tube from the earths surface to “space” and sealed it at both ends you could have a frictionless elevator
minus-squareEl Barto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoI mean… sure. But you could do the same from the surface of Earth to the height of the Eiffel tower. Or my uncle Bob’s third floor apartment.
So in theory if you built a vacuum tube from the earths surface to “space” and sealed it at both ends you could have a frictionless elevator
I mean… sure. But you could do the same from the surface of Earth to the height of the Eiffel tower. Or my uncle Bob’s third floor apartment.