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1. The magic xerox drum remembers some of what it has copied.  When
it returns to the factory for recoating, it is debriefed.

2. Israel-France-Iraq

3. Dynamic compression member (name courtesy Robert Forward) has other
applications than the tower.
  It might be worthwhile to ask Rod for
and Lowell to consider briefly a hexagon at a few hundred mile altitude.
The hexagon might be simpler than the tower.
a. It might dangle a cable.
b. (Perhaps better).  A station so supported could be supplied by low
mass-ratio rockets.
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4. What stable orbit clusters of mutually gravitating particles exist.