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From: giles@ucf-cs.UUCP (Bruce Giles)
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Subject: Re: space station killing
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Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 20:52:16 EST
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Who said anything about permanently poisoning the well?

Launch the BBs into a suborbital trajectory, and time the launch so that at
some point in time they will occupy the same `point' in space as the space
station.

The entire time from launch --> collision --> reentry of BBs would be less
than one hour.

Of course, you still have to worry about space station fragments, but they
should be relatively easy to avoid.



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