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  1. 05-12-2015, 17:29 #1
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    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ing-spacecraft

    Depressing to think: I was helping with 1:1-scale models of this *30 years ago*....
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    WOW, only $10,000.00 for a lunch at the launch
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    They have exceeded their goal with many days to go.
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    Given how long some of us have been waiting: I'm not surprised.... (Now we have the money to go with it. >;) )
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunjammer

    Read this decades ago when it was serialised in the old "Speed and Power" magazine
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