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Road Trip On The Interplanetary Superhighway

Posted by timothy on from the no-bathroom-breaks dept.

eegad writes: "CNN has an article about a new idea from NASA springing from chaos theory called the interplanetary superhighway. It will purportedly allow easier space travel by steering through regions where the net gravitational force exerted by nearby bodies is smallest. The actual NASA news release is here. Sounds like an interesting concept but it is unclear how the scientists will account for every source of gravity, including the elusive dark matter."

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  1. Wasn't there an old song... by orangepeel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Highway to Uranus"?

    Forgive me ;-)

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    Whoever designed level 61 in Frozen Bubble is a sadistic bastard.
  2. Sigh... by Ross+Finlayson · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    • 2002-07-20 01:34:54 Celestial mechanics advance lowers cost of Solar System missions (articles,space) (rejected)