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The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his ‘brick moon’ proposal were dismissed as science fiction.
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The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his ‘brick moon’ proposal were dismissed as science fiction.
I guess the idea is that if a competent engineer had been in charge of the Trojan Horse project, the ancient Greeks would’ve used an aluminum frame with a mylar fabric covering.