Why sports-cars fly over hills (was How conveyor-belts actually work) Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Why sports-cars fly over hills (was How conveyor-belts actually work)
# 12883 byhitssquad@... on April 25, 2013, 7:56 p.m.
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--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "sailor.barsoom" wrote:
> --- 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 belts don't yank the boxes downward so fast
You mean the speeds of the belts are limited inversely by gravity? From that we could conclude that the belts would run on the moon at 1/6th the speeds they would run on the earth?