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

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

Ahh, in my drawing of the configuration I should have 
of course written "pushing truss", instead of "pulling truss"
(I have had always problems with rembering
what is "pull" and what is "push"  ;-)))


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         ...  sail                  ...
          |                           \  shrouds to the sail
          |                            \
payload   |                             \
          |                              \        <---
  ####    |       pushing truss           \       <---  beam
 #####==================<==================#      <---  from
  ####    |                               /       <---  Earth
          |                              /        <---
          |                             /
          |                            /
          |                           /  shrouds to the sail
         ...  sail                  ...



-- Zenon