SS1 -- one down, one to go!

"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 18:48:58 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Dave
O'Neill" made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

In the spirit of British roadsters with Lucas electrics..

Lucas: Prince of Darkness.

Q: Why do the Brits drink their beer warm?

We do what?

You really ought to stop watching Basil Rathbone movies and drawing your
conclusions about Britain from them :-p

I've been there. But maybe "warm" is relative...

Serious question: when last?

Things have improved dramatically in the beer stakes temperature wise in the
last decade - although bitter is best served "cool".

That said, at least you can buy drinkable beer in the US now :-p

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:19:26 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Dave
O'Neill" made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Q: Why do the Brits drink their beer warm?

We do what?

You really ought to stop watching Basil Rathbone movies and drawing your
conclusions about Britain from them :-p

I've been there. But maybe "warm" is relative...

Serious question: when last?

Four years ago.

"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:19:26 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Dave
O'Neill" made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Q: Why do the Brits drink their beer warm?

We do what?

You really ought to stop watching Basil Rathbone movies and drawing
your
conclusions about Britain from them :-p

I've been there. But maybe "warm" is relative...

Serious question: when last?

Four years ago.

Unless it was meant to be served close to warm temperature, you should have
had no trouble finding a cold beer then.

Sure you looked?

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:26:38 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Dave
O'Neill" made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Q: Why do the Brits drink their beer warm?

We do what?

You really ought to stop watching Basil Rathbone movies and drawing
your
conclusions about Britain from them :-p

I've been there. But maybe "warm" is relative...

Serious question: when last?

Four years ago.

Unless it was meant to be served close to warm temperature, you should have
had no trouble finding a cold beer then.

Sure you looked?

No, I didn't look. I like my beer warm, at least in pubs...

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:26:55 GMT, Craig Fink
wrote:

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 20:25:02 -0700, Mary Shafer wrote:

On 30 Sep 2004 17:05:45 -0700, (Edward
Wright) wrote:

h (Rand Simberg) wrote in message .. .

Except for the Saturn V. Or the Shuttle.

Or the X-15.

They at least did captive carries, which is more than the Shuttle did.


Not sure what you mean?

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Pho...m/ECN-6887.jpg

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Pho...ECN77-8608.jpg

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Pho...m/ECN-8923.jpg

ALT wasn't powered. Nor did it include a significant portion of the
flight envelope.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer

"Mary Shafer" wrote in message
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ALT wasn't powered. Nor did it include a significant portion of the
flight envelope.

I don't believe ALT went superonic (due to being unpowered), let alone
hypersonic. STS-1 really was a fairly big leap of faith that did uncover at
least one fairly serious control problem (that Mary has talked about
numerous times).

Jeff
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