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Comment Re:In other news (Score 2) 482

A friend of my parents was an early adopter in this wind energy thing.
Meaning he put up a 30m tall generator in his own front yard in the early nineties...

I don't know what 'wind sickness' is supposed to be, but that thing was god damn annoying.

It would go ....SHINGnnnnnn.........SHINGnnnnn...........SHINGnnnnnnn......... all day and night, never stopping. If you didnt hear it, you could feel it through the floor/bed.

Maybe it would've been a good idea not to put the thing 15m in front of his house. And maybe a wind generator making a sound like that means it's damaged somehow. But I wouldn't say noise pollution from wind generators seems like such a far fetched idea. Not after living with that house for a couple of days.

Comment Re:Sorry, little retro rockets won't work for that (Score 5, Insightful) 520

Because we are currently unable to judge the stability of the object, or it's internal mass distribution just by looking at it from long range.
Pushing it at any point might just lead to breaking off a small piece, or the spaceship slowly sinking into and through it.
If we miss the mass center, the push will mostly be transformed into rotation.

All these problems are a non issue with gravitiational pull.

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