There hasn't been a research tangent in a while. ...There hasn't really been TIME for one in a while

[monstevr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_triband_flags
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator#Base_station ((An abandoned space elevator... or one filled with squatters... or haunted... or an abandoned zoo))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Space_elevator_balance_of_forces.png ((What the fuck do you mean, "Earth is slowed minutely"?! Can you please be more careful with your phallic symbols, future-humanity?!))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator#Counterweight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevators_in_fiction
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Centra ((Could Centra be the civilization from Final Fantasy XII??))