[net.space] Kites

KFL@MIT-MC.ARPA ("Keith F. Lynch") (12/30/85)

    From: amdcad!cae780!weitek!mmm@ucbvax.berkeley.edu  (Mark Thorson)

    With all the interest in skyhooks and tethers, I'm inspired to ask "How
    about a kite?"  Is there enough gas streaming off the earth or the sun to
    catch in a kite?
  
  I don't think there is hardly any gas streaming off the Earth.  As
for the solar wind, that is only at great alititudes.  If you could
build a kite that high, you would do better to build an equatorial
skyhook.
								...Keith