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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Idiot ideas you had when you were a kid
 
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Applesnots
Oct 22, 2010

MERRY YOBMAS

smug n stuff posted:

kinda but I thought you could use it to communicate instantaneously
like you could push one end of the cable in a morse code pattern or something, and the other end would move at the exact same time, so you could communicate faster than the speed of light.
Space Elevators are different I think?

It does not work though. I had the same thought as a kid too.

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