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Old 20th Dec 2006, 20:36
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Originally Posted by Dave_Jackson
All I am showing is that the 'Flettner-System was not slow. The direction that Kaman took the interleaving (synchropter) configuration created the conception of slowness.
Good point well made.

Originally Posted by Dave_Jackson
If 'nature' means 'life' then appears that the answer is; - Yes. 'Life' rode a comet. Is not the comet an appropriate 'vehicle' for the enviroment of space?
Well, not sure i'll let you get away with that one. What i mean is that no natural lifeform can achieve a deliberate Earth-Moon-Earth voyage without technical means of some description.

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