On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 16:49:16 +0200 (MET DST) Zenon Kulpa
<zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl> writes:
>> From: jimaclem@juno.com>
>> I thought of a simple solution to this a few hours after sending
>that
>> message.
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>> 000
>> PAYLOAD----> 000 /\
>> 000 | DIRECTION OF TRAVEL
>> 00 |
>> 00
>> SAIL | SAIL
>> ________________________________ |
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>> \ <-----TENSION | <-----Compression
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>> \ MEMBER |
>Member
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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
>
Oops, sorry bout' that. Here goes again.
payload --> OO
compression mbr. ||
_________________ __________________
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tension mbr. \ || /
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Hope this is better. The sail pulls a column that passes through the
sail, with the payload on top, away from the Earth side of the sail.
Jim