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Baloo
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I present [fanfare, please!] the solar BALOON?!?

No kidding. Go look and comment.

--Baloo

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Davok
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Odd. Very odd idea. And I'm not sure �f it works at all.

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JEM
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Yep, very weird. I can't see this working at all. What's connecting the ship to the 'magnetic cloud' which I'm sure would rapidly disperse anyhow.
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First of Two
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The same thing that connects Earth to IT'S magnetic field.

I think this had promise. Who clicked on the link to the paper on it?

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The First One
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quote:
NASA has recently funded the building of a prototype, which should be completed by 2001.

Can you say 'Proxmire?'


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Gaseous Anomaly
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Lee: Uhh?

I wonder what episode of a certain science-fiction show Winglee watched the night before.

Seriously though, I'd love to see this get as far as a prototype stage. But how in the hell are they going to create a magnetic field of this size? They would have to be some seriously chaged-up atoms to generate a field of this size.

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Kosh
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There must be some way to do it, easy enough to get money from NASA to build a prototype. I thought Baloo had found a funny till I read the paper. Hope it works!!

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