Brion VIBBER wrote:
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This Fox News column links our article on [[Geosynchronous orbit]]: http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,62200,00.html
Cool! The author (Rand Simburg, retired Boeing aerospace engineer) is a guy I used to debate with extensively at sci.space.policy. I should go visiting and inquire whether he found Wikipedia from checking out the announcement I put there a while back or from a search engine. Basically the announcement stated that Wikipedia was a potentially useful technology for "open engineering" efforts.
Either way it is rather amusing that I apparently originated the stub and an anonymous address did a lot of fixing. I wonder if the fixing was Rand or some other sci.space.policy regular checking my work. 8)
Maybe I should ask him why he did not use this link for an ion thruster source. The first two hits provide instant credibility that ion thrusters are a current proven technology. One has to know where to look in space propulsion to find anything outland or far futuristic.
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=ion+propulsion
lol, Since he is now a paid professional writer he may not wish to admit he used to volunteer some efforts.
I should also remind him he can edit anonymously; if he wishes to create the reference material that he needs online to keep the technical detail down in the article, while providing easy access to it.
Regards, Mike Irwin