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From: freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: reentry of paper airplanes?
Message-ID: <259@spar.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-May-85 14:07:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 22 14:07:51 1985
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Reply-To: freeman@max.UUCP (Jay Freeman)
Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA
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/* libation to line-eater */

In article <1975@sdcrdcf.UUCP> lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) writes:

>Write your address on it, and attach a postage stamp.  And hope it doesn't
>land in someone's swimming pool.
>
With all the fuss about stability augmentation for the shuttle, I doubt that
the fact that a paper airplane is airplane-shaped would have much to do with
its chances for surviving reentry.  

But how about just tossing out a bunch of stamped, self-addressed postcards
and seeing whether any of them ever came back?

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-- Jay Reynolds Freeman (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research) (canonical disclaimer)