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In article <C03G65.L68@world.std.com> fhapgood@world.std.com (Fred Hapgood) writes:
>Recently Scientific American ran a short article on 'evacuated
>maglev', or 'e-mag', which means putting trains in a tube,
>evacuating the tube, and then using magnetic levitation to propel
>them.
(followed by interesting posting)

There was a movie made on this theme at least 10 years ago.  The US transport
system was by emag, and after a war (?) people were rediscovering the
connections.  Also perhaps a story by Clark?  One idea is to have the tube
drop, so that the train falls down deep into the earth and comes back up at the
destination.  Only a little extra shove would be needed to assure that it got
to the same level, more if the destination is at higher potential.  It would be
pretty bad if something went wrong, and one fell back and kept swinging
though... :-)

The nice thing about your proposed weightless facility is that it would be more
accessable than orbit.  Also, you could have any mass (whole cities??) in the
orbit.

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov