I had an interesting idea today for an artificial island. Instead of building up the sea bed, why not build a diamond or carbon nanotube wall that completely...

The armchair buckytubes have very low electric resistance and very high maximum current density -- about one billion amperes per square centimeter. If...

Correction: There are 3 kinds of buckytubes: armchair, zigzag, and chiral. Armchair buckytubes are ballistic conductors. Zigzag and chiral buckytubes are...

"Duram" wrote in message ... How is the Hubble positioned in space? parallel to earth? pointed...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Computational Hypersonic Aerodynamics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom The...

References: Whoo hoo, another update, based on part of the feedback (don't worry, I'm not ignoring HGH's...

http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_aerospacedaily_story.jsp?id=news/moon06094.xml Some good info on Lunar Resource Orbiter and beyond : Using a...

Fifteen years ago Richard Moss proposed to levitate a superconductive cable in the Earth magnetic field. This idea does not make sense because no existing...

This was an interesting article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5025388/ Gee, this sounds like it would be a much more enjoyable Space Tourism experience....

"KFH" kirjoitti viestissä ... I have been thinking...

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Gas core nuclear thermal rockets have long been attractive in paper studies on the exploitation of space. Their high ISPs and high thrust have the potential...

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In article , Jake McGuire wrote: The air in the airlock (at STP, or some approximation...

(Josh Gigantino) wrote in message ... Someplace on the Tethers Unlimited website, Mr...

A Yank getting more news/press in the UK than in the US. Sad. Makes ya wonder about our news media. Mike Alaska Frank Scrooby wrote:

Bono's aerospike designs from the 60s feature toroidal comubstion chambers, whereas recent designs like the X-33's linear aerospike usually have several small,...

Hi all Is this significant at all? So far only the BBC is reporting it (as far as I can see). Amateur rocket fired into...

I believe that we have beaten this horse to death here during prior discussions. Yet I feel dissatisfied with the extent of our discussions and the state of...