The mechanism (See "Gravitational 'Figuring Example" below), is that of deliberately emplacing the required axially symmetric "sculptured" masses behind the optics (in "zero-gravity" —i.e., orbit or unpowered trajectory in space) [15, 16]. These masses' sizes, shapes and positions would be designed by a special local gravitational acceleration integration program. Of course for such "epihydrostatical" or capillary (liquid space) optics, even the slight forces lent by gravitational gradient, solar radiation, internal (machineiy or human) movements, atmospheric drag, etc., become highly significant and must be accounted for (Figure 30). Ultimate applications of liquid space optics Using solar (or in general, stellar) energy, astronomical and liquid-mirror laser- optical system principles, it becomes practical by macrolaser power-beam-from-orbit "bootstrapping" (and exponential self-construction) of ultimately vast optical systems in space, to precisely transport virtually anywhere, almost arbitrarily large (stellar-derived), energy supplies. These quantities would be conveyed at light speed to a fixed or (by variable focal length—Figures 28 and 29) moving receiver virtually anywhere in the stellar system (if any) or outside in extrastellar space (depending on latter definition) [17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22], Figure 30 Moments affecting vehicles in Earth orbit
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