Stairway to Heaven is about 8 minutes long, so they better work hard on speeding the elevator up to match that.
3.4x10^7/(500)^2 = a m/sec2
For an 8min20sec flip time. 20+g if you really want the 8min.
Also, it makes the need for muzak nonexistant because all your passengers are dead and can't hear it anyway. Seems to me that defeats the purpose of trying to time the trip to coincide with the length of a particular song.
It just wasn't really that good.
We should probably treat it more like commercial air travel than compressive-structure elevator rides.
0: 200kph*8day/8min/2min => 67.981081 gravity
It looks like 6 Gs is about as much as is feasible for an extended period of time.
Any pointers to 6 Gs as being tolerable, for how long? Tnx.
10 Gs for 1 minute is lethal.
I don't think you'd get actual paste, but yes, 8-minute space elevator rides aren't looking very physically possible.