#697: Tensile vs. Shear Strength explain

[A space elevator occupies the height of the frame, consisting of a base, a cable extending out into space, and an elevator unit with standard elevator features such as sliding doors and up/down buttons. A banner flutters in the breeze attached to the cable going up above the elevator. There is text on the banner. Text appear in four lines split across the elevator cable itself, the rhyming portions of the text is on the right side of the cable. Five individuals stand at the base of the elevator. To the left are Megan, a Cueball-like guy with his arms raised, and Ponytail, who is holding a bottle of champagne/sparkling wine which is bubbling out down the neck of the bottle. To the right is Black Hat, who cuts the cable with a pruning shear like it was part of the ceremony as a ribbon cutting. Finally further right is Cueball who sees what Black Hat is doing. He is very alarmed holding a hand to his mouth while holding the other out towards Black Hat.]

Banner: Space Elevator

Banner: Grand opening

|style=“text-align:right;"|After countless

|style=“text-align:left;"|engineers

|style=“text-align:right;"|spend trillions over

|style=“text-align:left;"|fifty years,

|style=“text-align:right;"|a modern babel

|style=“text-align:left;"|disappears

|style=“text-align:right;"|because some fuck brought

|style=“text-align:left;"|pruning shears.

Pruning shears: Snip

Cueball: !!