What if … you had a very light spacecraft … OK, maybe it’s just a satellite with microchips … and suppose (yeah sure) they reallly could build a buckytube-walled space tube that’s 100 miles high … following me so far? … OK, we’ve got the outer part of our space elevator, but what’s to lift the rocket? Aha! How about beer foam!

10 … 9 … 8 … 7 … 6 … 5 … 4 … 3 … 2 … 1 … Twist off!

Open all the keg taps, fphwwwooooommmmmp! Foam goes sky high. Light frothy bubbles build faster than escape velocity, shooting our rocket into space. Unmanned, of course.

So there are no accusations of drunk driving.

Hey, maybe this could also be part of my reality show, Beer Factor.