From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2024-06-24, Aidan Kehoe  wrote:   
      
   > I was going to say that I was surprised patenting something that wasn’t   
   built   
   > was allowed at that point, but on reflection there’s no reason to be   
   surprised.   
      
   In 1993, physicist and science fiction writer Robert L. Forward   
   received a patent on the statite, a then and now entirely hypothetical   
   type of satellite that uses a solar sail to keep its "orbit".   
      
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   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
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