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From: anand@amax.npac.syr.edu (Anand Rangachari)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Stopping Space and Light Pollution.
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Date: 6 Nov 88 20:03:20 GMT
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  With all this talk about reducing the possibility of collision with debris,
I am reminded of a scheme suggested in the book 'The songs of distant Earth'
by Clarke. In this book, the ship Magellen pushes a shield made of ice
ahead of it, sweeping a clean path. Maybe a similar shield could be
made for the space shuttle from waste water and the water produced in the
fuel cells. 

  In fact it could be produced quite easily by creating a framework made
from a shape memory alloy. Then, water could be sprayed on it to actually
form the shield. 
  
                                                     R. Anand
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