Azehntel.174
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utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:sri-unix!hplabs!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!berry
Fri Mar 19 09:21:50 1982
Re: light sail race around the moon
I am curious too.  Talk about your "offshore racing"!  Who gets right of
way? the ship on the port or starboard tack? or maybe the up or down tack?
(relative to the ecliptic, of course).  How do you decide which craft is 
burdened?  Enough sailing jargon, the idea is interesting anyway (but
at present sounds more like SF than reality, at least with my
limited info.)  I surmise that most space applications will be more-or-
less serious until it becomes (relatively) inexpensive.  I can't see
anyone spending a billion dollars for a race.  (but then I can't understand why
the America Cup contenders spend millions, but it's their cash,
and fun to watch anyway)

  --Berry Kercheval, Zehntel Inc.