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Re: problems with beaming
- To: T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl (Timothy van der Linden)
- Subject: Re: problems with beaming
- From: kgstar@most.fw.hac.com (Kelly Starks x7066 MS 10-39)
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:08:44 -0500
- Cc: KellySt@aol.com, kgstar@most.fw.hac.com, stevev@efn.org, jim@bogie2.bio.purdue.edu, zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl, hous0042@maroon.tc.umn.edu, rddesign@wolfenet.com, David@InterWorld.com, lparker@destin.gulfnet.com, DotarSojat@aol.com
At 10:48 PM 4/16/96, Timothy van der Linden wrote:
>To Lee,
>
>>>The problem is that the feedback may take upto 10 ly (for deceleration), any
>>>prediction would probably be meaningless.
>>
>>Actually, no. The base course of the ship is known and fairly stable, as for
>>feedback, the reflection off of the sail provides a built-in feedback
>>mechanism better than anything we could build.
>
>This assumes the starship can keep exact (within 0.5 km deviation) course
>all the time, I'm not convinced about that.
>If you can make everything work with such a slow feedback, then I think that
>you don't even need feedback.
>
>
>Timothy
Feed back to who Lee? Obviously feedback to the transmitters in Sol are
useless given the up to 22 year responce time. So who is using the
feedback?
Kelly
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