From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)
Subject: Re: Keeping Spacecraft on after Funding Cuts.
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Some birds require constant management for survival.  Pointing a sensor at
the sun, even when powered down, may burn it out.  Pointing a
parabolic antenna  at Sol,  from venus orbit  may trash the
foci  elements.

Even if you let teh bird drift,  it may  get hosed by some
cosmic phenomena.   

pat
