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Re: Transit Time to Mars
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Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:47:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.pun, Michael Horvath writes:
What about those solar-powered space-sailboats that surf the cosmic rays.
Theoretically, they could approach the speed of light, but I wouldn't want
to hit a dust particle at that speed!

Well, you might be able to steer out of the way dust in time.

--Todd



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  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
(...) Do you really 'speck us to believe that? -LFB (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
  Re: Transit Time to Mars
 
(...) Gah. Your capacity for a dirty pun has overwhelmed me. You might say I've been swept away... James (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)

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(...) Theoretically, they could approach the speed of light, but I wouldn't want to hit a dust particle at that speed! (Not to mention that you would have to convert conventional matter into a more basic type of particle in order to go that fast. Of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)

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