From: naddy@mips.inka.de

On 2024-06-24, Aidan Kehoe  wrote:

> I was going to say that I was surprised patenting something that wasn’t
built
> was allowed at that point, but on reflection there’s no reason to be
surprised.

In 1993, physicist and science fiction writer Robert L. Forward
received a patent on the statite, a then and now entirely hypothetical
type of satellite that uses a solar sail to keep its "orbit".

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de

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