Outer space is probably full of cool stuff, but the problem with it is that everything is really far away, so you're going to have to go really fast to get to the cool stuff in any amount of time.

This project has been on the drawing board at DylanBright.com's Advanced Propulsion and Space Exploration Division for quite some time.  Recently my schedule allowed me to put in some time on the project and I shall share with you the results.  Ladies and Gentlemen I give you:

The Dylan Bright Light Speed Earth Arm

Image not even remotely to scale.

How does it work?  Well it's easy, the Earth turns.  People and things on the equator are in fact moving at 1,040 miles per hour in fact.  People at the North Pole aren't moving nearly as fast.  The further you are from the axis of rotation on the earth's surface, the faster you go.  So all we need to go really really really fast, like 670,616,629 mph Miles per hour (the speed of light) is to get the right distance from the earth, and let it turn us really really fast.

Enter the Dylan Bright Light Speed Earth Arm.  Just build an arm coming off the earth at the equator long enough, and as the earth turns, the arm will turn, and the end of the arm will be going pretty darn fast. 

Unfortunately the arm is going to have to be pretty long.  2,555,436,251 miles long.  Wow that's pretty big, let me check my math.  

We've got the radius of the earth, 3,963 miles (that's the approximate distance from the earth's surface at the equator to the center of the earth) and at that distance from our axis of rotation we go 1,040 miles per hour.  So we have this ratio:

3963 : 1040

But I want to go 670,616,629 miles per hour.  How far do I need to be (x below)?

x : 670,616,629

Cross multiply blah blah blah, and yep 2,555,436,251 miles long.  Hmmm  well it's going to need to be built of a material so strong that it can withstand all the forces and what not, and it's going to need to have pretty much no mass whatsoever to keep from screwing up the earth's rotation, and then there's the collision problem. It's going to possibly collide with every big thing  in the solar system, since the solar system has a radius of only 3,666,000,000 miles (the distance of Pluto from the Sun more or less).

I guess I won't apply for a patent on this one just yet.

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