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The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his 'brick moon' proposal were dismissed as science fiction.

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[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That was the same explanation I came up with.