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Old 23-June-2007, 12:07 AM
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Originally Posted by JeffreyNYA View Post
I suppose it would be kind of like a rail gun in a way
Coil gun, not railgun. Common mistake.

The amount of precision you're talking about may not be possible. Probably, manuvering a spacecraft at solar-orbit speeds to pass through a ring would be as difficult or more so than matching orbits with a planet, not to mention the consequences of hitting the ring itself. That's assuming you can find a way to hold the rings precisely where they need to be without them going into orbit around the planets or the sun, as the case may be.
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