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  Re: How to lift 600-tonnes ships at virtually no energy costs  
From: Warp
Date: 20 Sep 2009 03:44:34
Message: <4ab5dd62@news.povray.org>
SharkD <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Also, I am having trouble visualizing how the device behaves differently 
> on curved surfaces (i.e. the Earth) as opposed to a flat plane. I wish 
> the article had some diagrams or animations.

  I don't think that the curvature of Earth played a significant role in
the distances involved (probably like a thousand kilometers at most,
relatively close to the equator).

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                                                          - Warp


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