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- From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Averting doom
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.155013.16085@stortek.com>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 15:50:13 GMT
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- John McCarthy (jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
- : I also don't see any way of making Niven's idea work. How did he
- : propose to move the gas giant?
- : --
- : John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Fusion ramjet. Vertical axis. Suspended by hot H2 balloons.
- Newton's third law. Whatever.
- : *
- : He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
- :
- Ah, but the sense in Niven's calculations lies in publishing royalties,
- not in planetary engineering. :-)
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