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On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:49:45 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote: R & D for it funded by Air Force: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0611135049.htm ....What? This *again*?? We were hearing about MHD flying saucers back when I was in High School, and even then it was the Air Farce that was looking at them. And they still never address the issue of whether or not telemetry will make it through the plasma field or not, do they? When I go to Roswell next month, I'll be sure to ask the Greys what their punchline is for this version of the joke...:-/ OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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OM wrote: ...What? This *again*?? We were hearing about MHD flying saucers back when I was in High School, and even then it was the Air Farce that was looking at them. And they still never address the issue of whether or not telemetry will make it through the plasma field or not, do they? They've made great strides in battery electrical storage capacity versus weight since then, as all those strange electric powered RC planes and choppers out at Walmart show. As to getting the control signal through the plasma, that was accomplished with the Sprint missile, despite it being wrapped in near white-hot plasma during ascent due to its hypersonic velocity in the lower atmosphere. I'm surprised a obvious tactic to cut weight while maintaining structural rigidity wasn't discussed - make the thing into a inflatable balloon, with gas pressure holding the exterior skin rigid, and only needing a circumferential ring structure to keep the shape right. Although not much help in something of 6" diameter, in something of 60' diameter filling it with helium would kill two birds with one stone, and surprisingly, a valve of some sort may not be needed to prevent over-pressurization as it climbs to high altitude: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpressure_balloon Some of those have spent over two years in flight while going clean around the Earth 35 times: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_...ding_technique Pat |
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