Re: starship-design: Timothy's beamed power paper

[Zenon Kulpa <zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl>]

> From: jimaclem@juno.com> 
> I thought of a simple solution to this a few hours after sending that
> message.  
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> Lighter than the compression member only idea, and only a little heavier
> than the tension only, especially since it should reduce the shielding
> problem.
> 
> Jim
> 
Your use of combined spaces and tabs for the ASCII art above,
together with your (or list's?) mailer bad habit of automatically 
breaking longer lines made the construction above unreadable...
Though I catched the general idea, please redraw the design
(shorter lines, space-only character padding) to make it sneak 
undamaged through our too-intelligent mail software...

-- Zenon