Quote:It's there in the ship registry -- 3700 feet across, 250 acres of land. For a while, it was a flattened sphere -- looking sort of like a pudgy flying saucer -- but I've been convinced to make it round again.
Oh, my - it's that big?
Quote:That's in the registry, too -- at least groundside, it set off military radars for hundreds of miles. As the particular part of WV it took off from is about 90 mins from DC, that would be a powerful many military radars... Hadn't considered the Fenspace reaction, though -- I just figured it'd be, "cool, here come some more folks."
The launching of Grovers' Corners had to have made an impression on anyone who was watching, then..
And if that's the way folks are going to react, maybe I need to reconsider the "hanging out at a Lagrange point for a couple weeks after boosting before meeting the neighbors" bit.
-- Bob
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