On 8/9/2010 5:55 AM, Jeff Findley wrote:
In , bthorn64
@suddenlink.net says...

On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:17:26 -0800, Pat
wrote:

What's the thing with the Dead Sea Scrolls on page 16 of the PDF?:
http://images.spaceref.com/news/2010...Propulsion.pdf

?Black water shall
elevate thy children to
the heavens. Purify it.
But thou shalt not
combine it in a ratio
greater than one
kikkar to twenty
shekkels, nor shalt
thou burn rocks.
Thus saith the lord.?

Is this some sort of Biblical statement favoring LOX/LH2 propulsion over
solids?

It's supposed to promote RP-1 over solids.

I'm with Pat. That creeped me out. I don't like to see religion in my
engineering details. Of course, this could have been meant to be a
tongue in cheek reference to how the proponents of solids cling to them
like a religion, despite their obvious flaws.

I've got a book on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and I couldn't find that quote
anywhere in there.

Pat

Jeff