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Re: starship-design: Re: Mystery force tugs




In a message dated 5/16/01 11:00:54 PM, rmarlin@network-one.com writes:

>This "news" is getting to be two or three years old now, and yet it still
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>circulates. The solution was found a long time ago- IR photon pressure
>from
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>the RTG power supplies aboard all four probes causes the (extremely minute)
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>deltaV. After many years of flight, that minute deltaV becomes readily
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>detectable.


How can thermal emmiters hung off to the side, push the ships backward?