#697: Tensile vs. Shear Strength

[[A banner flutters in the breeze, evidently attached to the elevator it mentions in its text. It reads “SPACE ELEVATOR” “GRAND OPENING”]]

[[A space elevator occupies the height of the frame, consisting of a bass, a ribbon extending out into space, and an elevator unit with standard elevator features such as sliding doors and up

down buttons.]]

((The following lines appear split across the elevator itself, the rhyming portions of the text separated from the others.))

AFTER COUNTLESS ENGINEERS

SPEND TRILLIONS OVER FIFTY YEARS,

A MODERN BABEL DISAPPEARS

BECAUSE SOME FUCK BROUGHT PRUNING SHEARS

[[Five individuals stand at the base of the elevator: a brunette woman, a man, a blond woman who has recently opened a bottle of champagne, an alarmed man, and Hat Guy, who has smuggled the aforementioned shears into the ceremony and unceremoniously turned it into a ribbon cutting.]]

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