From: jdnicoll@panix.com   
      
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   Earl Colby Pottinger   wrote:   
   >Please, please learn some more first.  What is happening is not what you   
   >think.   
   >   
   	Although the idea of being able to convert angular   
   momentum into linear with actually throwing stuff is an old   
   one in space: didn't both Tsiolkovsky _and_ Oberth briefly   
   toy with that before seeing the obvious problem?   
      
   	And I am _sure_ someone from Imperial College was claiming   
   to have found a way to make it work in the 1970s. From the general   
   lack of flying cars, I would guess he was wrong.   
      
   	Or, or   
      
   	The men in black suits   
   NO CARRIER   
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