Re: [OT] Beanstalk anyone?

In a message dated 3/28/02 8:26:53 AM Central Standard Time, 
bbilderback@hotmail.com writes:

> Someone else mentioned this one.  Dounds like a very good story.  But
my 
> curiosity was not about dropping a beanstalk, it was about letting one
go 
> from the bottom - the opposite effect.
> 
> 

A beanstal top would be geo-stationary, would it not. It would not have
much 
angular momentum and would at most drift away and be recoverable for
some 
time. The 2300 AD universe has a beanstalk detached during a planetary 
assault - to keep it from being dropped upon the planet (Kafer war
scenario 
pack).