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Subject: Re: Getting UNSTUCK in the middle of space
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 14:47:53 EDT
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> > an ordinary bicycle tire pump.  All these ideas center around the
> > standard principle that all rockets work by ...ically
> 
> Er, one could, um, auh, ynow, use a, er liquid jet.  After coffee
> one has at least a pint or so of 'reaction mass'.  Just a thought ...
> and only in an emergency ...
> -- 
> 
> E. Michael Smith  ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems
> 
> Tilapia Zilli is the way and the light.
> 
> This is the obligatory disclaimer of everything.


...Not to mention that the, er, uh, spigot or um, nozzle, is fairly near
the center of gravity...