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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: International Typewriter Day (23 June)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:19:50 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-06-24, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:

> I was going to say that I was surprised patenting something that wasn’t built
> was allowed at that point, but on reflection there’s no reason to be surprised.

In 1993, physicist and science fiction writer Robert L. Forward
received a patent on the statite, a then and now entirely hypothetical
type of satellite that uses a solar sail to keep its "orbit".

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de