From: Ron Blue (rcb5@msn.com)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 00:21:59 PDT
> A rather novel approach of slowing it down would be to send out a long
wire
> and use magnet fields to slow it down. Naturally these approaches
> should generate allot of radio noise which SETI could detect.
>
> Ron Blue
In the old days trains were stopped by puting magnetic field next to
rotating copper plates. The copper metal moving through a magnet field
generated resistance an electrical movement. It did not wear out or burn
up. There are magnet field near solar systems. A moving circular wire of
two types connected will generate electricity. Put resistance in the system
so it does not burn out and you will slow down the probe.
Ron
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Hoffman" <ghoffman@spacetech.com>
To: "Daniel Boyd Fox" <foxd@indiana.edu>
Cc: "Ron Blue" <rcb5@msn.com>; <public@setileague.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: SETI public: Jill Tarter on the Fermi Paradox
> Certainly, a tether a few 100 yards long, or even miles long, is perfectly
> reasonable... but Light-Years long ???!!!
>
>
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