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Brian H
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If you squirt positive ions far, far, away, the electrons are left behind. Everything would become charged, and would assume a maximal dispersion pattern within the spacecraft. If the charge was large enough, it would all fly apart by repulsion.

Electrons don’t like each other very much. ;-P

Speaking of CERN, didja hear they’re likely to make strangelets and annihilate the local cosmos? :grrr: