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Solar-Powered Plane to Fly Around the World
securitas writes "The BBC's Carolyn Fry reports on the Solar Impulse project, a plan to circumnavigate the globe in a solar-powered airplane. Adventurers Brian Jones and Dr. Bertrand Piccard, who were the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon in 1999, are behind the Solar Impulse project. The project is proceeding to the design stage after a feasability study determined that the solar-powered airplane concept is a viable idea. While other solar-powered planes like the Helios prototype have relied on a secondary power source (fuel cells), this project will be powered by solar energy alone. Batteries will store energy received in daylight hours to fly all night. The first prototype is scheduled for launch in 2006."
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us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
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core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy
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to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper
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peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory
end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.
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on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the
offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan,
erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends
an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes:
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where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev-
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I wish there was a way for me, as a Christian, as a human being, to sit down with some of you and have a pleasant, civil discussion without bitterness or sarcasm. I don't force people to believe what I believe. I don't mock others with different beliefs. I hope I can find the words to explain myself, as my life goes on. I hope I can help people to see.
Solar electric propulsion is hardly new. It's been used for getting communications satellites out to their final geosynchronous orbits for a number of years now, and NASA demonstrated using solar-powered ion engines for interplanetary primary propulsion on Deep Space 1 [nasa.gov] back in '98.
What ESA is claiming is new about this mission is that they'll be combining ion propulsion with gravity assist maneuvers. AFAIK that hasn't really been done yet (although I know some guys at JPL who're working on it), and given how difficult it can be to work out low-thrust trajectories in the first place I would imagine that successfully throwing gravity assists into the mix would be a significant acheivement.
It's a blatant karma whore, pasted from the anti-slash database. Mod this shit into the ground.
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The above post is obviously a lie. No one could think that anyone with a name like 'Leffe' could be a karmawhore!
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Mod parent up for literary trolling!
NUFF SAID
James Joyce 0wnz j00!
This is a story about a girl name lucky
Early mornin' she wakes up
Knock, knock , knock on the door
It's time for make-up, perfect smile
It's you they're all waitin' for
They go,"Isn't she lovely this hollywood girl
And they say she's so lucky
She's a star but she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart thinkin'
If there's nothin' missin' in my life then why do these tears come at night?"
Lost in an image, in a dream
But theres's no one there to wake her up
And the world is spinnin' and she keeps on winnin'
But tell me what happens when it stops
They go: Isn't she lovely this hollywood girl
And they say she's so lucky, she's a star
But she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart thinkin', if there's nothin'
missin' in my life then why do these tears come at night?
Aye, aye ye et ede, ooh
Best Actress: and the winner is Lucky!I'm Roger Jonhson waiting outside the
arena for Lucky. OH MY GOD! Here she comes!
Isn't she lovely this hollywood girl
She is so lucky, but why does she cry
If there is nothing missin' in my life why do tears come at night
And they say she's so lucky: but she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart
thinkin'
If there's nothin' missin' in my life , then why do these tears come at night?
i'm so excited about the gnaa versus trollkore FP battle coming up!!!! my god, it's the first time i've ever been excited about slashdot actually
:D
or even the entire WWW
i can't wait!!!!! make it good you guys