<< That is extremely *slow* compared to what is being discussed.
Consider that the fastest manned military aircraft cannot fly fast
enough to stay directly under a low-orbit satellite, and the
satellite is going much faster than such an aircraft would need to
go; and something down at ground level must go considerably faster
to be considered orbital. Heck, the main reason for evacuating the
tube is that at that speed, simply running into air would be a
serious problem.
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It seems this kind of transportation would be best for things that can take
the g force (im not sure what it would be) to put them in orbit (like special
cargo, and humans maybe). How would we burst them into orbit each time? It
would be cool to just have things in underground orbit (like continuous
orbits), Im sure it would be useful somehow. Would the tube have to be a
perfect ring and would it also have to be relevant to the spin of the planet?
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