No wonder the Asian countries are kicking our butts in science. Who here would have thought to use a "cursor" to deflect a meteor? Not me. Makes me want to dust off and rethink the "mirror" option. It doesn't require power. Quoting Josephine Grahn <bsi@xmission.com>:
Yeah, we have always been pretty sure it was not as hard as NASA was pretending...
Quoting Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>:
Japanese in one case and possibly Chinese in the other, but you'll get the point:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ETStsw4pvc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4V93tm466U
patrick
p.s. After Kim's comments about observing in the cold I got this frosty picture as I was closing up the other morning:
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/BRRR.JPG
brrrrr...
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