"Ron Wanttaja" wrote in message
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SNIP

[Note the following is waaaay simplified.]

All right. Let's connect the two with a massless cable. Let's assume the
Main Station remains fixed above the equator, and the Way Station just
magically appears at its 200 nm position.

SNIP

I hadn't realized that you were a physicist, Ron - loved the assumptions.

Any spherical cows around your neck of the woods? :-)

Michael Pilla