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- From: crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow)
- Newsgroups: alt.destroy.the.earth
- Subject: Re: Physical Constants List
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 01:11:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.112746.8664@impmh.uucp> <1993Jan21.194306.12763@ncsu.edu>
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- In <1993Jan21.194306.12763@ncsu.edu> bjbisset@eos.ncsu.edu (BILLY JOE BISSETTE) writes:
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- >dsg@impmh.uucp (Dave Gordon) writes:
- >>Thus a mirror in Earth orbit could collect well over *1GW* per square
- >>kilometre, even after allowing for losses. That's a lot of power - surely
- >>someone can find an application for it (diverting asteroids springs to mind)!
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- >Divert?! Why would we want to divert asteroids? This is alt.destroy.the.earth.
- >There are much better uses for that much power. We could have a giant
- >bar-b-cue... 8)
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- >PS: nice work on the data, but why did you write m/s as m s^-1, I mean m/s is
- >so much more pleasant to the eye...
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- Diverting asteroids can be a lot of fun. Just imagine...
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- "AP (NASA): Saddam has again refused to comply with the U.N.
- sanctions. The US has warned him that he has 24 hours left to
- reconsider his position before his nation is turned into a giant
- crater."
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- Or suppose Panama decided to refuse to let us use the canal that we
- gave them...
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- "AP (Central America): The nation of Panama was destroyed by a
- collision with a passing asteroid that mysteriously altered its course
- and crashed into the Earth. Currently, there are no reported
- casualties, though several hundred-thousand people are missing. The
- crater has flooded and now provides a fifty-mile wide channel suitable
- for ocean-going vessels."
-
- Wouldn't it be wonderful?
-
- --PC
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- --
- Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the
- things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you
- live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.
- Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God... --Deut 4:9-10a
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