Sunday, 3 September 2006

Sci Fi / Sci Fact

I've just read about the European Smart 1 Probe, which we deliberately smashed into the lunar surface early this morning in the interests of science and space exploration.

I discovered that it's powered by a Single Ion Engine. Given that we've just "attacked" the moon, then I would suggest that this makes it our first working SIE fighter. One more engine (Twin Ion Engine) and we would have had a TIE fighter.

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