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To: BenLurkin

Solar sails and cubesats are both kind of interesting in their own right.

I hadn’t really thought about it till now but the solar sails could be used for moving potentially dangerous asteroids to different paths.


2 posted on 05/19/2015 10:19:47 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: cripplecreek

The plane is searching for an intergalactic KFC.


3 posted on 05/19/2015 10:22:35 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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To: cripplecreek

Useful for those special trips.

4 posted on 05/19/2015 10:48:48 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: cripplecreek
Not a new concept... James Bond and Willard Whyte in Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
6 posted on 05/20/2015 1:54:36 AM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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