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  1. Newsgroups: sci.astro
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  3. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  4. Subject: Re: Averting doom
  5. In-Reply-To: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com's message of Sun, 27 Dec 1992 07:00:33 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.92Dec26232447@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  7. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  8. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  9. Organization: Society for Celestial Mechanical Engineering
  10. References: <1992Dec26.153304.8294@stortek.com> <1992Dec27.070033.18932@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
  11. Date: 26 Dec 92 23:24:47
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  14. I also don't see any way of making Niven's idea work.  How did he
  15. propose to move the gas giant?
  16. --
  17. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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  19. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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