[lojban] Lojban Kids Show - connecting the tubes

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

The two tubes have to be at least 32 km apart to keep the mirrors from hitting 
each other, and that's if they're never quite fully open and any maneuvers 
involving spinning the two tubes at different speeds are scheduled for times 
when the mirrors are at least 2/3 closed. (When the mirrors are fully open, 
their tips will be accelerating at 81g, or 794 m/s². How we'll keep them from 
flinging off into space, I don't know.) This means there's a corridor at 
least 32 km long, possibly 64, at each end of the tubes. Vehicles of some 
sort travel from one tube to the other, carrying stuff and people between the 
two tubes. The docking station is in the middle of one of these corridors, 
the one closer to the Sun, I think. So when Alpha and Beta arrive, they take 
one of these corridor cars to the tube, and go down the elevator to Beta's 
town.

Pierre
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