[ExI] Space Elevator (Going Down)

[Emlyn]

> I had the unfortunate experience of reading through Tides of Light
> recently. In it, a cybernetic pseudopodia organism plays with a hu and
> throws him down a giant shaft straight through the center of a planet.
> He picks up lots and lots of velocity. Could be a useful effect. So the
> gravity well might still be of some use yet ... think of it as the
> classic Star Trek slingshot maneuver, but within the planet.
>
> - Bryan

Wouldn't he come out at the same velocity at which he went in?

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Emlyn

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