To: ETL
Asimov wrote a short story about Light sailing. I believe involved a race around Saturn or Jupiter, It was something like a solar system America’s cup. Ship I think was called “Diana”.
This is probably someone needed a publication for tenure.
4 posted on
11/05/2018 12:58:34 PM PST by
Reily
To: All
So now they will find out we’re here when that thing gets back to base ... in a million years ... by which time we should have much better ways of fighting back.
#WALLAROUNDEARTH
11 posted on
11/05/2018 1:02:27 PM PST by
Peter ODonnell
(In the alternate universe, John McCain was a one-term president and Sarah Palin a two-term president)
To: Reily
"Asimov wrote a short story about Light sailing. I believe involved a race around Saturn or Jupiter, It was something like a solar system America’s cup. Ship I think was called “Diana”."Was it Asimov, or Arthur C. Clark? I remember the story, in Boy's Life, say 1963ish? A Maltese Cross shaped sail, controlled by multiple fishing reels I have that kind of useless memory.
31 posted on
11/05/2018 1:22:29 PM PST by
jonascord
(First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
To: Reily
33 posted on
11/05/2018 1:25:22 PM PST by
backwoods-engineer
(Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
To: Reily
I’ll get excited when THEY tell me they have rec’d a signal indicating >> 3.1415 etc etc
Couldn’t be an easier way to “send a msg”....
34 posted on
11/05/2018 1:25:32 PM PST by
litehaus
(A memory toooo long.............)
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