Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> What are other applications for this setup?
> >
> > Gravity drive. Just let the beam fall and fall, and you'll eventually be
> > trucking across the universe.
>
> Er... wouldn't you just reach terminal velocity quite quickly?
>
> Unless you could somehow do this in a vacuum...
>
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Which wouldn't be that hard, since you only need to put a tube around the
portals and evacuated that space.  Say, instead of a steel beam, you had a
highly polished cylinder of depleted uranium about 50cm in diameter. Even
though the vacuum wouldn't be perfect, the terminal velocity should be very
high, since you'd only have friction along the sides, as there would be no
front or rear.


-Reactor

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