Solar-pumped laser power transmission, a way to dramatically decrease launch costs?
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From: Androcles on 13 Feb 2010 20:32 "Pat Flannery" <flanner(a)daktel.com> wrote in message news:XpGdnZ5EgM702urWnZ2dnUVZ_sadnZ2d(a)posted.northdakotatelephone... > Androcles wrote: > >> What do the think the 'G' in Gmail stands for? >> Gmail, Goggle gropes... who cares? And it IS gropes, too. Google >> gropes the words you write about to find out what your interests are >> and then it can use that data to generate advertising revenue - that's >> why >> it is so successful. We are all being subtly manipulated in the interests >> of profit. Why does it spew "-Hide quoted text- -Show quoted text-"? >> For our convenience? Don't be naive, that's so it doesn't count the same >> thing twice. > > Well that's a whole new Google conspericy What's a "conspericy"? Please use English, I never learnt Gibberish and my time is valuable.
From: Wayne Throop on 13 Feb 2010 21:01 : Gmail, Goggle gropes... who cares? Anybody who's interested in accuracy instead of posing. Wayne Throop throopw(a)sheol.org http://sheol.org/throopw
From: David Spain on 14 Feb 2010 02:18 Pat Flannery <flanner(a)daktel.com> writes: > To get this up to the point where all the effort is justified due to the > increased solar flux, you are probably going to have to get the solar > collector into something like the distance of Mercury's orbit of the Sun, and > a microwave beam is going to spread all over the place from that distance on > its way to Earth. I thought we were talking about L1, not Mercury. We're crossing into Mookopia at this point, never mind.... Dave
From: David Spain on 14 Feb 2010 02:27 "Androcles" <Headmaster(a)Hogwarts.physics_u> writes: > I do have a use for a bridge, actually. A gentleman by the name of > Wheatstone gave me one. I'd be more interested to know how you are still alive... ;-) Dave
From: Androcles on 14 Feb 2010 03:00
"Fred J. McCall" <fjmccall(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:oh5fn5pp7pkdftrnsj32gp62od7rm85md6(a)4ax.com... > "Androcles" <Headmaster(a)Hogwarts.physics_u> wrote: > > : > :"Fred J. McCall" <fjmccall(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > :news:d3ben5p89p4cmoclpo15tjrl1okvoo8lvs(a)4ax.com... > :> "Androcles" <Headmaster(a)Hogwarts.physics_u> wrote: > :> > :> : > :> :When usenet posts get interrupted by gmail users, in this case Mook, > :> :it prevents Microsoft's Outlook Express from automatically inserting > :> :the indent markers, > :> : > :> > :> No. Yes it does, you snipping fuckwit. |