<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>uhm, After a while, you are going away from the Earth at a comperable speed to the mass you are repelling away from you?<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Something doesn't click here... Without station keeping thrust, your mass changes and you are going to gain/lose altitude as you spool out the cable. And as it gets closer to the Earth (inserting previous gripe:) it starts to build an electrical differential with you on orbit?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Just thinking out loud.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>]3</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Aug 3, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Mysteriously, it's going straight away from me toward the surface. After a while, the far end is hovering one inch above the ground.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>