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   Message 142,088 of 143,326   
   E.Laureti to All   
   Re: Propulsion for Moon and Mars   
   11 Jan 26 16:55:39   
   
   From: user2039@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Cursitor Doom  posted:   
      
   > On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:03:08 GMT, E.Laureti   
   >  wrote:   
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   > >"Edward Rawde"  posted:   
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   > >> "Bill Sloman"  wrote in message news:   
   0jtfd2$33pqc$4@dont-email.me...   
   > >> > On 10/01/2026 6:45 pm, E.Laureti wrote:   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> "Edward Rawde"  posted:   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>> ERROR "unexpected byte sequence starting at index 2894: '\xEC'" while   
   decoding:   
   > >> >>>   
   > >> >>> "E.Laureti"  wrote in message   
   news:1767985523-2039@newsgrouper.org...   
   > >> >>>>   
   > >> >>>> "Edward Rawde"  posted:   
   > >> >>>>   
   > >> >>>>> "Bill Sloman"  wrote in message   
   news:10jkspq$djbh$1@dont-email.me...   
   > >> >>>>>> On 7/01/2026 3:23 am, E.Laureti wrote:   
   > >> >   
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   > >> >   
   > >> >> It is possible to grow bananas that are not curved by letting them   
   > >> >> grow in a suitable glass cylinder open at both ends.   
   > >> >   
   > >> > Bananas are bent by gravity. If you look at the bunches growing on   
   tree, the better supported bananas in the bunch are less bent.   
   > >> > A glass tube could provide even more support.   
   > >>   
   > >> Looks like they curl up towards the light to me.   
   > >> Which is the same as saying they grow against gravity.   
   > >> https://www.google.com/search?q=bananas+growing&udm=2   
   > >> Maybe arranging for light to come from below rather than above would be   
   > >> an uneconomical way to get straight ones.   
   > >   
   > >who knows if flipping the tree   
   > > upside down will solve the problem   
   >   
   > Stranger things have happened. It's a widely-suppressed historical   
   > fact that Hitler escaped after the fall of Berlin and managed to reach   
   > the moon with a hijacked London bus.   
   >   
      
   He actually used one of Christopher Columbus's caravels   
   http://www.asps.it/tron7.jpg   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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