-> DW> Another thing... Think of the solar panels on the space station. For 
-> DW> good efficiency, they always have to aim at the sun. But if the station 
-> DW> were rotating, the panels would have to be on fancy pivots so as to 
-> DW> turn to keep facing the sun. They aren't, so they don't, so it isn't. 
->   
-> It depends how one looks upon it. There's as much logic in it to claim that  
-> ISS rotates all the time. 
->   
-> And I also think there are plenty of moments when the Sun is shielded from t 
-> ISS by Earth. 
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->  \%/{at}rd  
  
Certainly, the ISS is is darkness for a significant fraction of the 
time, but that's no reason to waste the sunlight it does get. 
  
I don't follow your "as much logic" argument. 
  
                            dow 
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