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Old July 28th, 2001, 11:11 PM
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Default Re: Cloaking Planets

You all need to go back and read "Ringworld" again. In the book, the Pupeteers moved their homeworlds along with a rosette of 5 or 6 suns at speeds in excess of the speed of light on a course out of the Milky Way. Don't say it can't be done. You just can't imagine it.
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I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite.
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