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Bob Shaw
post Jan 15 2007, 10:02 PM
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QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 15 2007, 02:19 PM) *
I agree with you. The term 'starship' to me implies a specific destination other than interstellar space itself but outside our solar system. By that standard, we're nowhere near launching one. sad.gif



In any case, those lead pellets (Project Farside?) may have been first out of the Solar System, back in the 1950s...

...not to mention the infamous sans-chocolate manhole cover!




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