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"tomcat" wrote in message
ups.com... NASA's plan to establish a permanent Moon Base on the Moon's South Pole is proof that we are in Outer Space to stay. I wonder if they will have 'Moon Women' to make the layover a bit more satisfactory. In purple wigs and silver miniskirts, no doubt. -- Regards, Mike Combs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- By all that you hold dear on this good Earth I bid you stand, Men of the West! Aragorn |
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Mike Combs wrote:
"tomcat" wrote in message ups.com... NASA's plan to establish a permanent Moon Base on the Moon's South Pole is proof that we are in Outer Space to stay. I wonder if they will have 'Moon Women' to make the layover a bit more satisfactory. In purple wigs and silver miniskirts, no doubt. And statues of Kirk looking important. |
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"Mike Combs" wrote in message
... "tomcat" wrote in message ups.com... NASA's plan to establish a permanent Moon Base on the Moon's South Pole is proof that we are in Outer Space to stay. I wonder if they will have 'Moon Women' to make the layover a bit more satisfactory. In purple wigs and silver miniskirts, no doubt. Actually, on having another look, I have to modify this. They only wore the miniskirts while off duty. While on, it was revealingly-snug silver tights. -- Regards, Mike Combs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- By all that you hold dear on this good Earth I bid you stand, Men of the West! Aragorn |
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Pat Flannery wrote: Ian Woollard wrote: And the insulation needed on large hydrogen tanks doesn't scale up with increased size, so the vehicle may well be more efficients. In fact, if you can figure out a way to tank it up within a couple of minutes before takeoff, it may not need much insulation at all; since it's going to be able to reenter the atmosphere its exterior will be insulated already, and the total flight time from takeoff till it's out of the atmosphere will only be a few minutes. If you really wanted to cutback on insulation while at the same time increasing the payload to orbit, then the thing to do would be to piggyback it on a large aircraft and only fuel it at high altitude to prevent ice build-up on its exterior. This has been looked at by others designing reusable orbital vehicles. Or you leave the insulation behind at launch. The shuttle ET starts to do that, but not intentionally. Picture the new Ares V launcher, in a giant condom, sponsored by London Rubber Company. Just before launch, a needle is used to pierce the condom which slides off taking all the ice with it. Apollo on viagra! |
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"Alex Terrell" wrote in message
oups.com Picture the new Ares V launcher, in a giant condom, sponsored by London Rubber Company. Just before launch, a needle is used to pierce the condom which slides off taking all the ice with it. Apollo on viagra! I've asked, and apparently they haven't a clue as to how many tonnes of their GLOW was involved with their nearly 30% inert package to start with. Oddly today, the very best of a highly composite rocket with hardly half the inert mass needs all of 80:1 just for accomplishing GSO. Aparently with merely a 60:1 ratio of rocket/payload, as Apollo mission intended, whereas a few extra tonnes of whatever ice doesn't matter. - Brad Guth -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG |
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