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Article #8209Re: Stopping Space and Light Pollution.
From: Anand Rangachari
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 1988 20:03
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 1988 20:03
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With all this talk about reducing the possibility of collision with debris,
I am reminded of a scheme suggested in the book 'The songs of distant Earth'
by Clarke. In this book, the ship Magellen pushes a shield made of ice
ahead of it, sweeping a clean path. Maybe a similar shield could be
made for the space shuttle from waste water and the water produced in the
fuel cells.
In fact it could be produced quite easily by creating a framework made
from a shape memory alloy. Then, water could be sprayed on it to actually
form the shield.
R. Anand
Internet: anand@amax.npac.syr.edu
Bitnet: ranand@sunrise
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!nic.MR.NET!tank!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!nyser!cmx!amax.npac.syr.edu!anand From: anand@amax.npac.syr.edu (Anand Rangachari) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Stopping Space and Light Pollution. Message-ID: <809@cmx.npac.syr.edu> Date: 6 Nov 88 20:03:20 GMT References: <8811011709.AA02398@decwrl.dec.com> <1379@thumper.bellcore.com> <1988Nov4.214749.25328@utzoo.uucp> Sender: usenet@cmx.npac.syr.edu Reply-To: anand@amax.npac.syr.edu (Anand Rangachari) Organization: Northeast Parallel Architectures Center Lines: 15