Re: STL travel

Thomas Anderson wrote:
> also a teeny bit like larry niven's ubiquitous gravity polariser - now
> there's a drive! i think the idea was you could flip the sign of the
force
> between you and a big mass, and so use it to generate lift.

	Well, actually, that turns out not to be the case.
	Niven's gravity polarizer had much the same limitations
	of a parachute.
	You could go any direction, as long as the direction
	was "down".

	It would convert your motion relative to a gravity well
	into waste heat.  So you could hover or fall slowely,
	but you could not rise.