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Originally Posted by Brett
Also, I note an implication that getting up or down this beanstalk will take a week.
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That's largely unaviodable. It's a 22,300 mile journey and I haven't heard any proposed speeds higher than 300 mph. For a week assume approx. half of that.
You'd also have to be pretty lucky to find out that the dynamics of a new planet were within the capacity of your Earth-scale beanstalk. That is not at all guaranteed and longer distances are easily possible.