Space nuclear power reactor info needed

In article ,
John Schilling wrote:

John Drake is still stuck in the Village, and I'll take Felicity Shagwell
over Austin Powers any day :-)

Shagwell got swapped for a robot at some point so she might well be
in the Village herself.

Mind you, I saw the robot and thought 'mass production'. Probably
some ethical issues, though.
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On 6 Jan 2004 12:07:18 -0800, (John Schilling)
wrote:

(Christopher) writes:

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 00:27:27 -0500, (Peter Stickney)
wrote:

In article ,
(Christopher) writes:

How do we know it's _really_ Scott Lowther that wants this? For all we
know, Scott could be in the hands of Blofeld, and we the unwitting
dupes of SPECTRE and its plans for world domination from space... just a
thought. Okay, would you believe Hugo Drax and another crew of
genetically perfect humans? How about three CHAOS agents with a plan to
corner the Lunar cheese market?

Best send for 007-Britain to the rescue of America...again-then. :-p

Well, until recently we had Derek Flint, Matt Helm, and Napoleon Solo.

And we had John Drake, and Austin Powers-YEAH baby.

John Drake is still stuck in the Village, and I'll take Felicity Shagwell
over Austin Powers any day :-)

No, John Drake visited the village only once. Your thinking of No 6,
and if you are old enough you'll know he escaped for good in the very
last episode. :-p

"Christopher" wrote in message
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On 6 Jan 2004 12:07:18 -0800, (John Schilling)

No, John Drake visited the village only once. Your thinking of No 6,
and if you are old enough you'll know he escaped for good in the very
last episode. :-p


Ah but did he really?

And is he really different than Drake?

(James Nicoll) writes:

In article ,
John Schilling wrote:

John Drake is still stuck in the Village, and I'll take Felicity Shagwell
over Austin Powers any day :-)

Shagwell got swapped for a robot at some point so she might well be
in the Village herself.


I think you've got the movies reversed here, actually. It was Vanessa
Kensington (brunette, played by Elizabeth Hurley, starred in the first
movie, and entirely British) who was revealed to have been a Fembot(tm)
all along. Felicity Shagwell was the blonde of the second movie, played
by Heather Graham and entirely deserving both parts of the theme song,
"American Woman".

Not that I would know any of this, of course.


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On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:09:48 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:


"Christopher" wrote in message
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On 6 Jan 2004 12:07:18 -0800, (John Schilling)

No, John Drake visited the village only once. Your thinking of No 6,
and if you are old enough you'll know he escaped for good in the very
last episode. :-p


Ah but did he really?

Yes, if you were quick you'd see the guy in the monkey outfit was No
6, and if your really quick you'd have seen that the number of No 6's
house in london was No 1 meaning he's one's self, an individual who is
not a number... ie it was just as the dwarf butler went into the house
before No 6/1 drove off in his Lotus Super 7, for the high speed blast
the program used to start with.

And is he really different than Drake?

Yes, John Drake was 'Danger Man', not 'The Prisoner'.

Scott Lowther wrote in message ...
I'm looking for diagrams of high-power (hudreds of kW is good,
multi-megawatt is better) *modern* space nuclear power reactors. Don't
need to be high detail, but I need something that I can use for getting
in the ballpark on dimensions, shapes, etc.

Print references are good, links are better, scans are best. Any help
would be appreciated.



Contact Dave Maul @ http://teledyneenergysystems.com. He was an SP-100
engineer and I worked with him about three years ago when I worked for
Teledyne. Most of the engineers there have experience with RTG's
however they are low wattage units. When I left there they were
working on a radio isotope sterling generator for PKE.

Hope this helps,
Gene DiGennaro
Baltimore, Md.

In article ,
John Schilling wrote:
(James Nicoll) writes:

In article ,
John Schilling wrote:

John Drake is still stuck in the Village, and I'll take Felicity Shagwell
over Austin Powers any day :-)

Shagwell got swapped for a robot at some point so she might well be
in the Village herself.


I think you've got the movies reversed here, actually.

I think you are correct.
--
"The Union Nationale has brought [Quebec] to the edge of an abyss.
With Social Credit you will take one step forward."

Camil Samson

(Gene DiGennaro) wrote in message . com...
Scott Lowther wrote in message ...
I'm looking for diagrams of high-power (hudreds of kW is good,
multi-megawatt is better) *modern* space nuclear power reactors. Don't
need to be high detail, but I need something that I can use for getting
in the ballpark on dimensions, shapes, etc.

Print references are good, links are better, scans are best. Any help
would be appreciated.



Contact Dave Maul @ http://teledyneenergysystems.com. He was an SP-100
engineer and I worked with him about three years ago when I worked for
Teledyne. Most of the engineers there have experience with RTG's
however they are low wattage units. When I left there they were
working on a radio isotope sterling generator for PKE.

Hope this helps,
Gene DiGennaro
Baltimore, Md.


Oops make that http://www.teledyneenergysystems.com

Doh!

Gene

In article ,
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On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:09:48 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:
And is he really different than Drake?

Yes, John Drake was 'Danger Man', not 'The Prisoner'.

No. 6 never revealed his name. It might have been John Drake.

Patrick McGoohan, it is rumored, always claimed that No 6 wasn't Drake
because otherwise he'd have legal problems. He didn't own the Drake
character.
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"Kevin Willoughby" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:09:48 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:
And is he really different than Drake?

Yes, John Drake was 'Danger Man', not 'The Prisoner'.

No. 6 never revealed his name. It might have been John Drake.

Patrick McGoohan, it is rumored, always claimed that No 6 wasn't Drake
because otherwise he'd have legal problems. He didn't own the Drake
character.

Christopher once again shows that his world is Black and White.

As you note, #6 never revealed his name, but it was clear he was some sort
of secret agent or otherwise had access to top-level classified information.
He preferred when possible to use his brains over his brawn.

Lots of similiarities. And of course some differences.

And of course the other point which you clipped which Christopher commented
on was his "escape."

Did he really escape at the end? Maybe. Maybe not. Taken at face value,
the end itself doesn't make much sense.

Anyway, who knows.

Be seeing you.


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Kevin Willoughby lid

Imagine that, a FROG ON-OFF switch, hardly the work
for test pilots. -- Mike Collins