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From: c162-de@zooey.Berkeley.EDU (David Navas)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Soviet Shuttle
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Date: 12 Sep 89 17:46:34 GMT
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In article <388@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM> kthompso@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM (Ken Thompson) writes:
>	What would keep us from firing a maneuvering engine from
>near or inside a pirate space vehicle.

Well, transmissions from the ground may be blocked by simply enclosing the
pirated craft inside of a Gaussian Surface.  And I can't imagine that those
maneuvering engines have much gusto associated with them.  Why should they?

David Navas
c162-de@zooey.Berkeley.Edu