Comment Obvious Choice (Score 5, Insightful) 508

by Stranger4U on Monday June 28, 2010 @02:44PM (#32720204) Attached to: NASA Should Focus On Going To..

I voted "Earth Orbit, Cheaply" if only because the success of all the other options is going to rely on this ability.

Comment Been Done (Score 4, Informative) 150

by Stranger4U on Monday June 02, 2008 @10:47AM (#23626903) Attached to: Building a Miniature Magnetic Earth

A group at New Mexico Tech was working on a similar experiment using a cylindrical chamber filled with liquid sodium and a way to introduce turbulence to create magnetic fields. This was started over ten years ago. Their group page is a bit out of date, though.

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