The slow ride to New Heaven

When the new wonder material, a combination of Monolayer-Tungsten-Disulfide and Monolayer-Molybdenum-Disulfide with a sandwich of Monolayer-Graphene gives the perfect mix of strength, flexibility, and electrical conductivity to build a space elevator, the first one was quick to be built. The costs of materials to orbit had continued to decline until it was cheaper than air travel had ever been so the gigatons of material was just a small gamble. It worked and the first group of five thousand plus medical, crew, and enough material to make dozens more elevators in this giant self-contained climber.

It would take almost three months to climb from the base station at 100k feet, all the way to geostationary orbit. The place was set up to be like one of those giant cruise ship size yachts you could rent out if you were a billionaire. With the crew being well paid and taken care of themselves, the trip was pleasant and I almost didn't notice the change in gravity until one day I dropped a banana and it took nearly ten seconds to hit the floor.

The changeover day, when we flipped over to keep the floor down when gravity returned was less eventful than I thought. I think I will reside on a one-hundredth gravity level when I find the perfect place. I could dance like I haven't been able to since the sixties and I didn't even feel winded after.

Life in the sky is going to be grand.