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Updated: May 5, 2025

But when Earth dictates that we will now swing south, be it ever so few degrees south, our mosquito is overpowered and can only drag us clear to Earth-center on a closing spiral, which would eventually lead us to crash somewhere in the southern hemisphere, a good many orbits from now. "I hope," he said, "reversing the magnetic field will indeed reverse our little mosquito's thrust."

Leigh Richmond - Where I Wasn't Going