私の生まれる前の話なんだけど、竣工直後に低軌道を周回していたマックスコーヒーの空缶が直撃したらしいです。

Here is a story that happened before I was born.
Right after "'it'":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator was completed, an empty can of Georgia Max Coffee in a "LEO":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit collided with it.
[tn]See also: "Wikipedia:The Spider's Thread":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spider%27s_Thread
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