Azehntel.174 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:sri-unix!hplabs!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!berry Fri Mar 19 09:21:50 1982 Re: light sail race around the moon I am curious too. Talk about your "offshore racing"! Who gets right of way? the ship on the port or starboard tack? or maybe the up or down tack? (relative to the ecliptic, of course). How do you decide which craft is burdened? Enough sailing jargon, the idea is interesting anyway (but at present sounds more like SF than reality, at least with my limited info.) I surmise that most space applications will be more-or- less serious until it becomes (relatively) inexpensive. I can't see anyone spending a billion dollars for a race. (but then I can't understand why the America Cup contenders spend millions, but it's their cash, and fun to watch anyway) --Berry Kercheval, Zehntel Inc. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.