Gordon D. Pusch wrote:
Dr John Stockton writes:
The significant difference is that, when climbing a beanstalk, one only has
to supply the change in _energy_, not the change in _momentum_, which is
is instead provided by the lateral force exerted by the beanstalk, which
very efficiently extracts momentum from the angular momentum of the Earth.

Does the beanstalk have to be straight up and down? If canted so as to
lag the Earth's rotation (at least during a climb maneuver)how would
that make a difference?