
When you first start out and the cars shake and rattle as the chain catches the underside, you are filled with pure excitement, pure elation. It is a necessary step for a top or turning point to exist and nothing more. What of the middle? Well, what about it? The middle is a homogenized slog of indifference. The two answers easily offered up are the beginning and the end. On that main ascent, what are the most exciting parts of it? But until then, think of it like a roller coaster. Once the space elevator gets built, I’m sure it will prove this notion somewhere around the 200 th mile or so and the thrill of traveling up a ribbon of carbon nanotubes up into the thermosphere becomes the same droll of any other elevator. There’s a point of escalation to where it doesn’t even feel like you’re going up anymore.
