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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Subject: Re: Nevada Casino - 200 miles up
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.180746.5622@ichips.intel.com>
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- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
- References: <64161@cup.portal.com> <MCGLK.92Aug25023447@bike.rad.washington.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:07:46 GMT
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- In article <MCGLK.92Aug25023447@bike.rad.washington.edu> mcglk@bike.rad.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen) writes:
- >If they've managed to develop antigrav generators by 2026 AD, you could suspend
- >the thing there using some gargantuan power source (perhaps a power-collecting
- >satellite in geosync orbit, or a fusion reactor, or something). Propellants
- >would just run out too fast. Then you'd have to spend an inordinate amount of
-
- Considering the application, I think we could make it
- float, ascend, descend, and do aerobatic maneuvers
- worthy of dragonflies if we could only harness the
- mandibular power of loudmouthed Chicagoan poker players
- on vacation.
-
- --Blair
- "Guess where I went this weekend..."
-