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

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "hitssquad" wrote:
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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?