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- trapped ions are one of the main areas of hardware compute
- Seversky, yes the same Seversky whose mansion I went into, was one of the first to believe in the ionocraft
- The principle of ionic wind propulsion with corona-generated charged particles was discovered soon after the discovery of electricity with references dating to 1709 in a book titled Physico-Mechanical Experiments on Various Subjects by Francis Hauksbee.
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- Geoffrey A. Landis proposed using an ion thruster powered by a space-based laser, in conjunction with a lightsail, to propel an interstellar probe ! via Teqoya air ionizers