Why sports-cars fly over hills (was How conveyor-belts actually work)

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Thread: Why sports-cars fly over hills (was How conveyor-belts actually work)

# 12882 bysailorbarsoom@... on April 25, 2013, 7:27 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

--- In spacesettlers, "hitssquad" wrote:

> What keeps the package in contact with the box or belt
> during a vertical-grade reduction (a common problem for
> exotic sports-cars travelling at high speeds on public
> highways)?

The people who design the system are aware of this and so the belts don't yank the boxes downward so fast that stuff comes out.

I mean, that's how I'd do it.